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Nicander in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek poet, born at Colophon, in Asia, about B.C. 150. He was an hereditary priest of Apollo, as well as a physician, and lived a great deal in Aetolia as well as later in Pergamum. He wrote numerous works, such as those on agriculture, of which considerable fragments are still preserved, and on mythological metamorphoses (used by the Roman poet ...

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Nicomachus in Wikipedia

Nicomachus (Greek: Νικόμαχος; c. 60 – c. 120) was an important mathematician in the ancient world and is best known for his works Introduction to Arithmetic (Arithmetike eisagoge) and Manual of Harmonics in Greek. He was born in Gerasa, Roman Syria (now Jerash, Jordan), and was strongly influenced by Aristotle. He was a Pythagorean. Life Little is...

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Nicomedes III of Bithynia in Wikipedia

Nicomedes III Euergetes (Ancient Greek: Νικομήδης Εὐεργέτης Nikomḗdēs Euergétēs) was the king of Bithynia, from c. 127 BC to c. 94 BC. He was the son and successor of Nicomedes II of Bithynia by an unnamed woman. By his first wife Nysa, he had two sons who were Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, Socrates and a daughter called Nysa[1], who cause was defended...

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Paeonius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek sculptor of Mendé in Thrace. About B.C. 436 he was employed in the decoration of the temple of Zeus in Olympia. According to Pausanias (v. 10 6), he was the sculptor of the marble groups in the front, or eastern, pediment of the temple, representing the preparations for the chariot-race between Pelops and Oenomaüs. (See Olympia.) Important ...

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Mnesikles in wikipedia

Mnesikles (Latin transliteration: Mnesicles) was an ancient Athenian architect active in the mid 5th century BCE, the age of Pericles....

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Myrtis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Μύρτις). A lyric poetess of Anthedon, in Boeotia, who is said to have been the teacher of Pindar, to which there is an allusion in an extant fragment of Corinna (Anthol. Pal. ix. 26). See Pindarus....

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Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) in Wikipedia

Metrodorus of Lampsacus (Greek: Μητροδωρος Λαμψακηνος, Mētrodōros Lampsakēnos; 5th century BC) was a Presocratic philosopher from the Greek town of Lampsacus on the eastern shore of the Hellespont. He was a contemporary and friend of Anaxagoras. He wrote on Homer, the leading feature of his system of interpretation being that the deities and storie...

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Miltiades in Wikipedia

Miltiades or Miltiadis (short: Miltos) is a Greek name. Several historic persons have been called Miltiades (Μιλτιάδης). * Miltiades the Elder (died c. 524 BC) wealthy Athenian, and step-uncle of Miltiades the Younger * Miltiades the Younger (c. 550 - 489 BC), tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese and the Athenian commanding general in the Battle of...

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Musaeus in Wikipedia

Musaeus or Musaios (Greek: Μουσαῖος) was the name of three Greek poets. Associate of Orpheus Musaeus was a legendary polymath, philosopher, historian, prophet, seer, priest, poet, and musician, said to have been the founder of priestly poetry in Attica. In 450 B.C., the playwright Euripides in his play Rhesus describes him thus, "Musaeus, too, thy...

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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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