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Nicomēdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Nicomēdes III., surnamed Philopator, king of Bithynia (B.C. 91-74), son and successor of Nicomedes II. Immediately after his accession, he was expelled by Mithridates, who set up against him his brother Socrates; but he was restored by the Romans in the following year (B.C. 90). At the instigation of the Romans, Nicomedes now proceeded to attack th...

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Pagondas in Wikipedia

Pagondas (Greek: Παγώνδας; son of Aeolidas, was a Theban general and statesman, who is best known for his command of the Boeotian forces at the Battle of Delium during the Peloponnesian War. His modification of the standard hoplite formation and his use of reserve cavalry in that battle constitute what most historians agree is the first recorded us...

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Mnesĭcles in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Μνησικλῆς). A Greek architect, the builder of the Propylaea (q. v.) of the Athenian Acropolis....

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Metrodorus of Scepsis in Wikipedia

Metrodorus of Scepsis (c. 145 BCE – 70 BCE), from the town of Scepsis in ancient Mysia, was a friend of Mithridates VI of Pontus and celebrated in antiquity for the excellence of his memory. He may be the same Metrodorus who, according to the Elder Pliny, in consequence of his hostility to the Romans, was surnamed the "Rome-hater" ("Misoromæus"). I...

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Aelius Moeris in Wikipedia

Aelius Moeris, Greek grammarian, surnamed Atticista (the Atticist), probably flourished in the 2nd century. He was the author of an extant (more or less alphabetical) list of Attic forms and expressions, accompanied by the Hellenistic parallels of his own time, the differences of gender, accent, and meaning being clearly and succinctly pointed out...

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Myia in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A daughter of Pythagoras and Theano , and wife of the great athlete Milo of Crotona....

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Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) in Wikipedia

Metrodorus of Lampsacus (Greek: Μητροδωρος Λαμψακηνος, Mētrodōros Lampsakēnos; 331/0–278/7 BC[1]) was a Greek philosopher of the Epicurean school. Although one of the four major proponents of Epicureanism, only fragments of his works remain. As a contemporary, Epicurus claimed him not to be an original thinker. Life Metrodorus was a native of Lamp...

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Myia in Wikipedia

Myia (Greek: Μυῖα; c. 500 BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher and, according to later tradition, one of the daughters of Theano and Pythagoras.[1] She was married to Milo of Croton, the famous athlete. She was a choir leader as a girl, and as a woman, she was noted for her exemplary religious behaviour.[2] Lucian, in his In Praise of a Fly, states th...

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Miltiădes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The son of Cypselus. He was a man of considerable distinction in Athens in the time of Pisistratus. The Doloncians, a Thracian tribe dwelling in the Chersonesus, being hard pressed in war by the Absinthians, applied to the Delphic oracle for advice, and were directed to admit a colony led by the man who should be the first to entertain them after t...

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Mimnermus in Wikipedia

Mimnermus (Greek: Μίμνερμος, Mímnermos) of Colophon was a Greek elegiac poet from Colophon, who flourished about 630-600 BC. Life and work Mimnermus lived in the troubled time when the Ionic cities of Asia Minor were struggling to maintain themselves against the rising power of the Lydian kings. One of the extant fragments of his poems refers to t...

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