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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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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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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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Mindărus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

(Μίνδαρος). A Lacedaemonian who succeeded Astyochus in command of the Spartan fleet, B.C. 411; and who was defeated and slain by the Athenians near Cyzicus the next year (Thuc.viii. 85, 104)....

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Myronides in Wikipedia

Myronides was an Athenian general in 458 BC, when he defeated the Corinthians at Megara, and again in 457 BC, when he defeated the Boeotians at the Battle of Oenophyta. It has been debated, but it is unlikely he was the same Myronides who was sent to Sparta with Cimon and Xanthippus and who served as general at the Battle of Plataea....

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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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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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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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Moschion (physician) in Wikipedia

Moschion, (Greek: Μοσχίων), a physician quoted by Soranus,[1] Andromachus,[2] and Asclepiades Pharmacion,[3] and who lived, therefore, in or before the 1st century. He may be the same person who was called the Corrector (Greek: Διορθωτής), because though he was one of the followers of Asclepiades of Bithynia, he ventured to controvert his opinions ...

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