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Nabis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Νάβις). A person who succeeded in making himself tyrant of Lacedaemon on the death of Machanidas, B.C. 207. He carried his tyranny to the furthest possible extent. All persons possessed of property were subjected to incessant exactions, and the most cruel tortures if they did not succeed in satisfying his rapacity. One of his engines of torture re...

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Nicias in Wikipedia

Nicias or Nikias (Νικίας) (c.470 BC-413 BC) was an Athenian politician and general during the period of the Peloponnesian War. Nicias was a member of the Athenian aristocracy because he had inherited a large fortune from his father, which was invested into the silver mines around Attica's Mt. Laurium. Following the death of Pericles in 429 BC, he b...

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Nicomăchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek painter, probably of Thebes, about B.C. 360. He was celebrated as an artist who could paint with equal rapidity and excellence, and was regarded as rivalling the best painters of his day. A famous painting of his was "The Rape of Persephoné" (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 108)....

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Pamphilus (painter) in Wikipedia

Pamphilus of Amphipolis (Ancient Greek: Πάμφιλος, 4th century BC) was a Macedonian[1] distinguished painter and head of Sicyonian school. He was the disciple of Eupompus, the founder of the Sicyonian school of painting , for the establishment of which, however, Pamphilus seems to have done much more than even Eupompus himself. Of his own works we h...

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Nicias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

An Athenian general who was a man of birth and fortune; but one in whom a generous temper, popular manners, and considerable political and military talent were marred by unreasonable diffidence and an excessive dread of responsibility. Nicias, however, signalized himself on several occasions. He took the island of Cythera from the Lacedaemonians, s...

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Olympias in Wikipedia

Olympias (Greek: Ὀλυμπιάς, ca. 375–316 BC[1]) was a Greek princess of Epirus, daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great. She was a devout member of the orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, and may have slept with snakes.[2] Origin Olympias was the daught...

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Gregory of Nazianzus in Wikipedia

Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 329[1] – January 25 389 or 390[1]) (also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen) was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age.[2] As a classically trained speaker and philosopher he infused Hellenism into the early church,...

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Nicomedes I of Bithynia in Wikipedia

Nicomedes I (Greek: Nικoμήδης; 278–c. 255 BC), second king of Bithynia, was the eldest son of Zipoites, whom he succeeded on the throne in 278 BC.[1] Overview He commenced his reign by putting to death two of his brothers but the third, subsequently called Zipoites II, raised an insurrection against him and succeeded in maintaining himself, for so...

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Olympiodorus of Thebes in Wikipedia

Olympiodorus (born ca 380, active ca 412-25) was an historical writer of classical education, a "poet by profession" as he says of himself, who was born at Thebes in Egypt, and was sent on a mission to the Huns on the Black Sea by Emperor Honorius about 412, and later lived at the court of Theodosius II, to whom his History was dedicated. The recor...

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Pamphĭlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Pamphilus of Amphipolis (Ancient Greek: Πάμφιλος, 4th century BC) was a Macedonian[1] distinguished painter and head of Sicyonian school. He was the disciple of Eupompus, the founder of the Sicyonian school of painting , for the establishment of which, however, Pamphilus seems to have done much more than even Eupompus himself. Of his own works we h...

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