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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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