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Zeno of Elea in Wikipedia

Zeno of Elea (pronounced /ˈziːnoʊ əv ˈɛliə/, Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης) (ca. 490 BC? – ca. 430 BC?) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic.[1] He is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as "immeasur...

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Zeno in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The Eleatic philosopher, a native of Elea (Velia) in Italy, son of Teleutagoras, and the favourite disciple of Parmenides. He was born about B.C. 488, and at the age of forty accompanied Parmenides to Athens. (See Parmenides.) He appears to have resided some time at Athens, and is said to have unfolded his doctrines to men like Pericles and Callias...

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Xenophon of Ephesus in Wikipedia

Xenophon of Ephesus (fl. 2nd century–3rd century?) was a Greek writer. His surviving work is the Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes, one of the earliest novels as well as one of the sources for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He is not to be confused with the earlier and more famous Athenian soldier and historian, Xenophon....

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Xanthippe in Wikipedia

Xanthippe (Greek: Ξανθίππη) was the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons Lamprocles,Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. There are far more stories about her than there are facts. She was likely much younger than the philosopher, perhaps by as much as forty years.[1] Name Xanthippe means "blonde horse", from the Greek ξανθός "xanthos" (blonde) ...

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Xenocrates in Wikipedia

Xenocrates (Ξενοκράτης; c. 396/5 – 314/3 BC[1]) of Chalcedon was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and leader (scholarch) of the Platonic Academy from 339/8 to 314/3 BC. His teachings followed those of Plato's, which he attempted to define more closely, often with mathematical elements. He distinguished three forms of being, the sensible, the int...

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Xenŏphon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ξενοφῶν). (1) An Athenian, the son of one Gryllus, born about B.C. 444. In his early life he was a pupil of Socrates; but the turningpoint in his career came when he decided to serve in the Greek contingent raised by Cyrus against Artaxerxes in 401. Xenophon himself mentions ( Anab. iii. 1) the circumstances under which he joined this army. Proxen...

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Xanthippé in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ξανθίππη). The wife of the Athenian philosopher Socrates. Many anecdotes have come down in the pages of ancient writers regarding this famous woman, whose name has become proverbial in all languages as that of a typical shrew. It is likely, however, that many of these are apocryphal, and that, on the other hand, there was much in the unpractical w...

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Xenocrătes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ξενοκράτης). A philosopher, born at Chalcedon in B.C. 400. He first attached himself to Æschines, but afterwards became a disciple of Plato, who took much pains in cultivating his genius, which was naturally heavy. Plato, comparing him with Aristotle, who was also one of his pupils, called the former a dull ass who needed the spur, and the latter ...

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Zeno of Sidon in wikipedia

Zeno of Sidon (c. 150-c. 75 BC[1]) was an Epicurean philosopher. His writings do not survive, but there are some epitomes of his lectures preserved among the writings of his pupil Philodemus. Life Zeno was born in the city of Sidon in Phoenicia. He was a contemporary of Cicero, who heard him when at Athens.[2][3] He was sometimes termed the "lead...

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Xanthippus in wikipedia

Xanthippus (Gr. Ξάνθιππος) was a wealthy Athenian politician and general during the early part of the fifth century BC. He was the son of Ariphron and father of Pericles [1]. Xanthippus served as eponymous archon of Athens in 479 BC. Xanthippus was directly responsible for the impeachment of Miltiades the Younger following Miltiades' failure to ca...

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