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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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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 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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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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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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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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