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Praxilla in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Πράξιλλα). A Greek poetess of Sicyon, about B.C. 450, who composed hymns and dithyrambs, but was especially famous for her scolia, or drinking-songs. We possess only insignificant fragments of her poems (Suidas, s. h. v.)....

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Pleistoanax in Wikipedia

Pleistoanax (Greek: Πλειστοάναξ; reigned 458 BC – 409 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta. He was the son of regent Pausanias (general), who was disgraced for conspiring with Xerxes. Pleistoanax was most anxious for Peace during the so-called First Peloponnesian War. He was exiled sometime between 446 BC and 444 BC, charged by the Spartans with taking ...

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Polĕmon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

1. I. A king of Pontus and the Bosporus. He was the son of Zenon, the orator of Laodicea. As a reward for the services rendered by his father as well as himself, he was appointed by Antony in B.C. 39 to the government of a part of China; and he subsequently obtained in exchange the kingdom of Pontus. He accompanied Antony in his expedition against ...

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Porphyry (philosopher) in Wikipedia

Porphyry of Tyre (Ancient Greek: Πορφύριος, A.D. 234–c. 305) was a Neoplatonic philosopher who was born in Tyre.[1] He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of his teacher Plotinus. He also wrote many works himself on a wide variety of topics.[2] His Isagoge, or Introduction, is an introduction to logic and philosophy,[3...

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Plotinus in wikipedia

Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτῖνος) (ca. AD 204/5–270) was a major philosopher of the ancient world who is widely considered the founder of Neoplatonism (along with his teacher Ammonius Saccas). Neoplatonism was an influential philosophy in Late Antiquity. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Pl...

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Polybius in Wikipedia

Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC), Greek Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called The Histories covering in detail the period of 220–146 BC. He is also renowned for his ideas of political balance in government, which were later used in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws and in the drafting of the United States C...

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Polydorus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Polydorus (Greek: Πολύδωρος, i.e. "many-gift[ed]") referred to several different people. * An Argive, son of Hippomedon. Pausanias lists him as one of the Epigoni, who attacked Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who died attempting the same thing. * Polydorus (son of Cadmus), son ...

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Polydōrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

1. Son of Cadmus and Harmonia, father of Labdacus, and great-grandfather of Oedipus. 2. Youngest son of Priam and of Laothoe; his father's favourite son. He was killed while yet a boy by Achilles. The tragedians make him the son of Priam and Hecuba, who, before the fall of Troy, committed him with many treasures to the care of their guest-friend, ...

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Poseidippus of Pella in Wikipedia

Poseidippus of Pella or Posidippus (Greek: Ποσείδιππος ὁ Πελλαῖος, c. 310 BC-240 BC) was an Ancient Greek epigrammatic poet who adhered to Orphism. He was born in the city of Pella capital of the kingdom of Macedon. He lived for some time in Samos before moving permanently to the court of Ptolemy I Soter and later Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Alexand...

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Pigres in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Πίγρης). A Greek poet of Halicarnassus, regarded by Baumeister and others as author of the Batrachomyomachia (q. v.). He is said to have been either the brother or son of Queen Artemisia (q.v.) of Caria. Besides the work mentioned, a poem called Margites is ascribed to him by Suidas (s. v.) and by Plutarch. He also inserted a pentameter line after...

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