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Milo in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Of Crotona, a celebrated athlete, six times victor in wrestling at the Olympic Games, and as often at the Pythian. He was one of the followers of Pythagoras, and also commanded the army which defeated the Sybarites, B.C. 511. Many stories are related of his extraordinary feats of strength: such as his carrying a heifer four years old on his shoulde...

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Mnaseas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Μνασέας). A native of Patara in Lycia, who studied under Eratosthenes of Alexandria, and became noted as a grammarian. He wrote two works-one a Periplus and one on the oracles given at Delphi (Athen. pp. 158, 296, 530)....

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Moschus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Μόσχος). A Greek bucolic poet, who lived in Syracuse about B.C. 150. Four longer and four shorter poems have been handed down as his; they show the greatest elegance of expression without the truth to nature and the dramatic power of his model, Theocritus. His lament for Bion is marked by melody and genuine pathos. Edited with Bion (q.v.) by Jacob...

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Purple-collared Woodstar in Wikipedia

The Purple-collared Woodstar (Myrtis fanny) is a species of bird in the hummingbird family, Trochilidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest....

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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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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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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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