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Metrodorus of Stratonicea in Wikipedia

Metrodorus of Stratonikeia (Caria), was at first a disciple of the Epicurean school, but afterwards attached himself to Carneades. His defection from the Epicurean school is almost unique. It is explained by Cicero as being due to his theory that the scepticism of Carneades was merely a means of attacking the Stoics on their own ground. Metrodorus ...

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Mimnermus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Μίμνερμος). A native of Colophon or Smyrna; and creator of the erotic type of Greek elegy, an older contemporary of Solon. He flourished about B.C. 630-600. He gave his collection of love elegies the name of the beautiful fluteplayer Nanno, who on account of his advanced age would not return his love. There are only a few fragments of his poems le...

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Moeris in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Aelius. Known as "the Atticist" (Moeris Atticista). A Greek grammarian of the second century A.D. He was the author of an Attic lexicon (Λέξεις Ἀττικαί), a list, in alphabetical order, of a number of expressions and forms used by Attic writers, with the parallel expressions used in his own time, and in other dialects. It is edited by Pierson (1759)...

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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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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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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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Myron in Wikipedia

Myron of Eleutherae (Greek Μύρων) working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-fifth century BC.[1] He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher.[2] The traveller Pausanias noted sculptures by Myron that remained in situ in the second cent...

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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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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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