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Zeuxis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ζεῦξις). A celebrated Greek painter of the Ionic School, a contemporary of Parrhasius; he was a native of Heraclea in South Italy, and lived till about B.C. 400 at different places in Greece, at last, as it appears, settling in Ephesus. According to the accounts of his works which have been preserved, in contrast to the great mural painter, Polygn...

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Zoilus in Wikipedia

Zoilus or Zoilos (Greek: Ζωΐλος; c. 400 BC-320 BC) was a Greek grammarian, Cynic philosopher, and literary critic from Amphipolis in East Macedonia, then known as Thrace. Took the name Homeromastix (Ὁμηρομάστιξ "Homer whipper"; gen.: Ὁμηρομάστιγος) later in life. According to Vitruvius (vii., preface) he lived during the age of Ptolemy Philadelphu...

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Xenarchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

1. The son of Sophron, and, like his father, a celebrated writer of mimes. He lived during the Rhegian War (B.C. 399-389), at the court of Dionysius (Poet. 2). 2. An Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy, who lived as late as the time of Alexander the Great (Suid. s. v.). Several fragments of his writings are collected in Meineke's Fragm. Com. ...

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Xenophănes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ξενοφάνης). The founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy was a native of Colophon, and born about B.C. 556. Xenophanes early left his own country and took refuge in Sicily, where he supported himself by reciting, at the court of Hiero, elegiac and iambic verses, which he had written in criticism of the Theogonies of Hesiod and Homer. From Sicil...

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Zeno of Citium in Wikipedia

Zeno of Citium (Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieŭs; 334 BC - 262 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Citium (Greek: Κίτιον), Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism laid great emphasis on goodness and peace of mind gained from li...

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Tyrimmas of Macedon in Wikipedia

Tyrimmas (Greek: Τυρίμμας) was an Argead King of Macedon from about 750 BC to 700 BC....

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Tryphiodorus in Wikipedia

Tryphiodorus (correctly but less commonly Triphiodorus), fl. 3rd or 4th century, was an epic poet native to Egypt. His only surviving work is The Taking of Ilios, in 691 verses. Other recorded titles include Marathoniaca and The Story of Hippodamea. His style is partway between that of Nonnus and Quintus Smyrnaeus. Life There is little known abou...

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Zenodorus in Wikipedia

Zenodorus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). They are distributed from the Moluccas to Australia, including several islands of the Pacific. At least one species, Z. orbiculatus, specializes on hunting ants. Species * Zenodorus albertisi (Thorell, 1881) - Moluccas to Queensland * Zenodorus arcipluvii (Peckham & Pec...

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Xenocles in Wikipedia

Xenocles (Ξενοκλῆς) or Zenocles was an Ancient Greek tragedian. There were two Athenian tragic poets of this name, one the grandfather of the other. No fragments of either are currently known, except for a few words of the elder apparently parodied in Aristophanes' "The Clouds". Aristophanes called the elder Xenocles an execrable poet and was nev...

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Xenophilus in Wikipedia

Xenophilus (Greek: Ξενόφιλος; 4th century BC) of Chalcidice,[2] was a Pythagorean philosopher and musician, who lived in the first half of the 4th century BC.[3] Aulus Gellius relates that Xenophilus was the intimate friend and teacher of Aristoxenus, and implies that Xenophilus taught him Pythagorean doctrine.[4] He was said to have belonged to th...

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