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Phocylĭdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Φωκυλίδης). An Ionian poet of Miletus, born B.C. 560. His poetry was chiefly gnomic (see Epos), and only a few fragments of it survive, 18 in number. A poem in 217 hexameters, entitled Ποίημα Νουθετικόν, which has come down under his name, is a later forgery....

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Pherecydes of Leros in Wikipedia

Pherecydes of Leros (c. 450s BC[1]) was a Greek mythographer and logographer. He came from the island of Leros. Pherecydes spent the greater part of his working life in Athens, and so he was also called Pherecydes of Athens: the encyclopedic Byzantine Suda consider Pherecydes of Athens and of Leros separately. Pherecydes of Leros should not be con...

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Philetaerus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Φιλέταιρος). The founder of the kingdom of Pergamum, a native of Paphlagonia (Strabo, pp. 543, 623). He had served in the army of Antigonus and later in that of Lysimachus, who put him in charge of the treasure stored at Pergamum. Philetaerus, shifting for himself, declared in favour of Seleucus (q.v.), but after the death of the latter (B.C. 280)...

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Philistus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Φίλιστος). A Greek historian of Syracuse, born about B.C. 435. He encouraged the elder Dionysius, by advice and assistance, in securing and maintaining the position of despot in his native State; but was himself banished by Dionysius in 386, and lived a long while at Adria in Epirus, busied with historical studies. Recalled by Dionysius the younge...

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Philitas of Cos in Wikipedia

Philitas of Cos, sometimes called Philetas (c. 340–c. 285 BC), was a scholar and poet during the early Hellenistic period of ancient Greece.[8] A Greek associated with Alexandria, he flourished in the second half of the 4th century BC and was appointed tutor to the heir to the throne of Ptolemaic Egypt. He was thin and frail; Athenaeus later carica...

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King Philoxenus in Wikipedia

Philoxenus Aniketos "The Invincible", was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the region spanning the Paropamisade to Punjab. Philoxenus seems to have been quite an important king who might briefly have ruled most of the Indo-Greek territory. Bopearachchi dates Philoxenus to c. 100-95 BCE and R.C. Senior to c. 125-110 BCE. Historians have not yet conn...

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Phormio in Wikipedia

Phormio (Φορμίων (gen. Φορμίωνος)), the son of Asopius, was an Athenian general and admiral before and during the Peloponnesian War. A talented naval commander, Phormio commanded at several famous Athenian victories in 428 BC, and was honored after his death with a statue on the acropolis and a state funeral. He is considered the first great admira...

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Pherecȳdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek philosopher, of the isle of Syros, about B.C. 600-550; said to have been the first writer of prose. He wrote in the Ionic dialect of the origin of the world and the gods (Cosmogonia and Theogonia). The poetic element seems to have held a predominant place in his prose. He is also said to have been the first to maintain the doctrine of the t...

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Philip I Philadelphus in Wikipedia

Philip I Philadelphus (Greek: Φίλιππος Α' ὁ Φιλάδελφος, "Philip the brother-loving"), a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom, was the fourth son of Antiochus VIII Grypus. He took the diadem in 95 BC together with his older brother (probably twin) Antiochus XI Ephiphanes, after the eldest son Seleucus VI Epiphanes was killed by their cousin Ant...

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Philoxenus of Eretria in Wikipedia

Philoxenus of Eretria was a painter from Eretria, the disciple of Nicomachus of Thebes, whose speed in painting he imitated and even surpassed, having discovered some new and rapid methods of colouring[1] Nevertheless, Pliny states that there was a picture of his which was inferior to none, of a battle of Alexander the Great with Darius, which he p...

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