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Zeuxidamus in Wikipedia

Zeuxidamus (Ζευξίδαμος) can refer to two ancient Spartans. 1. A king of Sparta, and tenth of the Eurypontid dynasty. He was grandson of Theopompus, and father of Anaxidamus, who succeeded him. [1] 2. A son of Leotychides, king of Sparta. He was also named Cyniscus. He died before his father, leaving a son, Archidamus II[2]...

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Zeuxis in Wikipedia

Zeuxis (Greek: Ζεῦξις) (of Heraclea) was a painter who flourished during the 5th century BC. Life and work Zeuxis was born in Heraclea around 464 BC and was presumably the pupil of Apollodorus. Zeuxis often thought himself misunderstood by his public and Aristotle did not like him at all. He is said to have laughed himself to death after painting ...

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Xanthippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The son of Ariphron and father of Pericles. He succeeded Themistocles as commander of the Athenian fleet in B.C. 479, and commanded the Athenians at the decisive battle of Mycalé....

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Xenocrates in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek physician of Aphrodisias, a work of whose is still remaining, on the food afforded by fishes. It is edited by Coray (Paris, 1814)....

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Zaleucus in Wikipedia

Zaleucus (Ancient Greek: Ζάλευκος; fl. 7th century BC) was the Greek lawgiver of Epizephyrian Locri, in Italy, said to have devised the first written Greek law code ( Locrian code ). Although the Locrian code distinctly favored the aristocracy, Zaleucus was famous for his conciliation of societal factions. No other facts of his life at all are cer...

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Zenobius in Wikipedia

Zenobius was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117-138).[1] Biography He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the Suda, from Didymus of Alexandria and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus of Tarrha, a polis in Crete). In the work,...

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Tolmides in Wikipedia

Tolmides, son of Tolmaeus, was a leading Athenian general of the First Peloponnesian War. He rivalled Pericles and Myronides for the military leadership of Athens during the 450's and early 440's BC.[1] In 455 BC Tolmides was given command of a fleet and a force of 4,000 soldiers in order to sail round the coasts of the Peloponnesus attacking the ...

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Xenarchus of Seleucia in Wikipedia

Xenarchus (Greek: Ξέναρχος; 1st century BC) of Seleucia in Cilicia, was a Peripatetic philosopher and grammarian. Xenarchus left home early, and devoted himself to the profession of teaching, first at Alexandria, afterwards at Athens, and last at Rome, where he enjoyed the friendship of Arius, and afterwards of Augustus; and he was still living, in...

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Zaleucus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ζάλευκος). The celebrated lawgiver of the Epizephyrian Locrians, is said by some to have been originally a slave, but is described by others as a man of good family. He could not, however, have been a disciple of Pythagoras, as some writers state, since he lived upwards of one hundred years before Pythagoras. The date of the legislation of Zaleucu...

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Xenophanes in Wikipedia

Xenophanes of Colophon (Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος IPA: [ksenophánɛːs ho kolophɔˊːnios]; c.570 – c.475 BCE)[1] was a Greek philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Knowledge of his views comes from fragments of his poetry, surviving as quotations by later Greek writers. To judge from these, his elegiac and iambic[2] poetry cri...

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