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Pyrrho in Wikipedia

Pyrrho (ca. 360 BC - ca. 270 BC), a Greek philosopher of classical antiquity, is credited as being the first Skeptic philosopher, and the inspiration for the school known as Pyrrhonism founded by Aenesidemus in the 1st century BC. Life Pyrrho was from Elis, on the Ionian Sea. Diogenes Laertius, quoting from Apollodorus, says that Pyrrho was at fir...

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Sappho in Wikipedia

Sappho (pronounced /ˈsæfoʊ/ in English; Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω [psapːʰɔː]) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her l...

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Scylax of Caryanda in Wikipedia

Scylax of Caryanda was a renowned Carian explorer and writer of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. Exploration and literary works In about 515 BCE, Scylax was sent by King Darius I of Persia to follow the course of the Indus River and discover where it led.[1] Scylax and his companions set out from city of Caspatyrus in Gandara, in today's Afghanistan...

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Pyrrhus of Epirus in Wikipedia

Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos (Greek: Πύρρος, Pyrros; 319/318 BC-272 BC) was a Greek[1][2][3] general and statesman of the Hellenistic era.[4] He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians[3], of the royal Aeacid house[5] (from ca. 297 BC), and later he became King of Epirus (306-302, 297-272 BC) and Macedon (288-284, 273-272 BC). He was one of the strongest o...

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Simmias in Wikipedia

Simmias (Greek: Σιμμίας) may refer to: * Simmias of Thebes follower of Socrates * Simmias of Macedon general of Alexander the Great * Simmias of Rhodes poet and grammarian (late 4th c.BC) * Simmias of Syracuse student of philosophy * Simmias Ptolemaic explorer of Red Sea. (3rd c.BC)...

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Seleucus IV Philopator in Wikipedia

Seleucus IV Philopator (Greek: Σέλευκος Δ' Φιλοπάτωρ), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, reigned from 187 BC to 175 BC over a realm consisting of Syria (now including Cilicia and Judea), Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Nearer Iran (Media and Persia). He was the second son and successor of Antiochus III the Great and Laodice III. The wife of Sele...

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Sextus Empirĭcus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A physician who was a contemporary of Galen, and lived in the first half of the third century of the Christian era. Two of his works are extant-Πυρρώνιαι Ὑποπτυπώσεις, dealing with the skeptical learning of Pyrrho (q.v.), in three books; and Πρὸς τοὺς Μαθηματικοὺς Ἀντιρρητικοί, in eleven books, against all positive philosophy. The first six books s...

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Scylax in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A native of Caryanda, in Caria, who was sent by Darius Hystaspis on a voyage of discovery down the Indus. Setting out from the city of Caspatyrus and the Pactyican district, Scylax reached the sea, and then sailed west through the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea, performing the whole voyage in thirty months (Herod.iv. 44). There is still extant a Perip...

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Seleucus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Surnamed Philopātor (187-175), was the son and successor of Antiochus the Great. The defeat of his father by the Romans, and the ignominious peace which followed it, had greatly diminished the power of the Syrian monarchy, and the reign of Seleucus was, in consequence, feeble and inglorious, and was marked by no striking events. He was assassinated...

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Sappho in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Σαπφώ; Aeolic, Ψάπφα). One of the two great leaders of the Aeolian school of lyric poetry, Alcaeus being the other. She was a native of Mitylené, or, as some said, of Eresos in Lesbos, and flourished towards the end of the seventh century B.C. Her father's name was Scamandronymus, who died when she was only six years old. She had three brothers, C...

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