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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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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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Micon in Wikipedia

Micon the Younger of Athens was an ancient Greek painter and sculptor from the middle of the 5th century BC. He was closely associated with Polygnotus of Thasos, in conjunction with whom he adorned the Stoa poikile ("Painted Portico"), at Athens, with paintings of the Battle of Marathon and other battles. He also painted in the Anaceum at Athens. H...

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Micon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Μίκων). An Athenian painter, who flourished about B.C. 460. He was also known as a sculptor (Pausan. vi. 6, 1)....

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Moschion (tragic poet) in wikipedia

Moschion, (Greek: Μοσχίων; 4th century BC), was a Greek tragic poet. Nothing is known about his life, he probably lived in the 4th century BC.[1] The titles and a few fragments of his plays are preserved by Stobaeus. He wrote a Telephus, and two historical plays: Themistocles, of which we have a three line fragment, and the Men of Pherae (Pheraioi)...

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Myron in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Μύρων). One of the most celebrated Greek artists of Eleutherae, in Attica, an older contemporary of Phidias and Polyclitus, and, like them, a pupil of Ageladas. His works, chiefly in bronze, were numerous and very varied in subject-gods, heroes, and especially athletes and representations of animals, which were admired by the ancients for their li...

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Mindarus in Wikipedia

Mindarus was a Spartan admiral who commanded the Peloponnesian fleet in 411 and 410 BC, during the Peloponnesian War. Successful in shifting the theater of war into the Hellespont, he then experienced a string of defeats; in the third and final of these, he himself was killed and the entire Peloponnesian fleet was captured or destroyed. Relocation...

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Metrodorus in Wikipedia

Metrodorus (Greek: Μητρόδωρος, Mētrodōros, "mother's gift") is the name of numerous historical figures, including: * Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) (5th century BC) - philosopher from the school of Anaxagoras * Metrodorus of Cos (5th century BC) - Pythagorean writer * Metrodorus of Chios (4th century BC) - philosopher from the school of De...

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