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Perseus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Περσεύς). Son of Zeus and Danae, the daughter of Acrisius. A sketch of his fabulous history has already been given under a previous article (see Danae); and it remains here but to relate the particulars of his enterprise against the Gorgons. When Perseus had made his rash promise to Polydectes, by which he bound himself to bring the latter the Gor...

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Parrhasius (painter) in Wikipedia

Parrhasius (Παρράσιος) of Ephesus was the son of Evenor and one of the greatest painters of Ancient Greece. He settled in Athens, and may be ranked among the Attic artists. The period of his activity is fixed by the anecdote which Xenophon records of the conversation between him and Socrates on the subject of art; he was therefore distinguished as ...

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Pausanias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A celebrated Greek traveller and geographer, a native of Lydia. He explored Greece, Macedonia, Asia, and Africa; and then, in the second half of the second century A.D., settled in Rome, where he composed a Periegesis (Περιήγησις) or Itinerary of Greece in ten books. Book I. includes Attica and Megaris; II., Corinth with Sicyon, Phlius, Argolis, Ae...

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Perdiccas III of Macedon in Wikipedia

Perdiccas III (Greek: Περδίκκας Γ`) was king of Macedonia from 368 to 359 BC, succeeding his brother Alexander II. Son of Amyntas III and Eurydice, he was underage when Alexander II was killed by Ptolemy of Aloros, who then ruled as regent. In 365, Perdiccas killed Ptolemy and assumed government. Of the reign of Perdiccas we have very little info...

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Perseus of Macedon in Wikipedia

Perseus (Greek: Περσεύς) (ca. 212 BC - 166 BC) was the last king (Basileus) of the Antigonid dynasty, who ruled the successor state in Macedon created upon the death of Alexander the Great. He also has the distinction of being the last of the line, after losing the Battle of Pydna on 22 June 168 BC; subsequently Macedon came under Roman rule. Reig...

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Parrhasius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Παρράσιος). A famous Greek painter of Ephesus, who with Zeuxis was the chief representative of the Ionic school. He lived about B.C. 400 at Athens, where he seems to have received the citizenship. According to the accounts of ancient writers, he first introduced into painting the theory of human proportions, gave to the face delicate shades of exp...

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Pedanius Dioscorides in Wikipedia

Pedanius Dioscorides (circa 40-90 AD) is the author of a 5-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances, i.e. a pharmacopeia, that was widely read for well more than a thousand years, and is of great historical value today. A native of Anazarbus, Cilicia, Asia Minor, Dioscorides was "a Greek physician, pharmacologist ...

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Perdiccas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Perdiccas III., king of Macedonia, B.C. 364-359, was the second son of Amyntas II., by his wife Eurydicé. On the assassination of his brother Alexander II., by Ptolemy of Alorus, B.C. 367, the crown of Macedonia devolved upon him by hereditary right, but Ptolemy virtually enjoyed the sovereign power as guardian of Perdiccas till B.C. 364, when the ...

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Perseus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

or Perses (Περσεύς). The last king of Macedonia, the eldest son of Philip V. He reigned eleven years, from B.C. 178 to 168. Before his accession he persuaded his father to put to death his younger brother Demetrius, whom he suspected that the Roman Senate intended to set up as a competitor for the throne on the death of Philip. Immediately after hi...

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Nearchus in Wikipedia

Nearchus (Greek: Νέαρχος, Nearchos; c. 360 - 300 BC) was one of the officers, a navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. His celebrated voyage from India to Susa after Alexander's expedition in India is preserved in Arrian's account, the Indica. A native of Lato[1] in Crete, his family settled at Amphipolis in Macedonia at some point during Ph...

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