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Melanthius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Μελάνθιος). 1. A goat-herd of Odysseus. 2. An Athenian tragic poet attacked by Aristophanes ( Pax, 796, and elsewhere). 3. A Greek painter of the Sicyonian School, contemporary with Apelles (B.C. 332), with whom he studied under Pamphilus (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 50)....

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Melissus of Samos in Wikipedia

Melissus of Samos (5th century BCE) was the third[1] and last member of the ancient school of Eleatic philosophy, whose other members included Zeno and Parmenides. Little is known about his life except that he was the commander of the Samian fleet shortly before the Peloponnesian War. Melissus’ contribution to philosophy was a treatise of systemati...

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Menander in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek rhetorician of Laodicea, who probably lived at the end of the third century after Christ. He is the author of two treatises about speeches for display, which add to our knowledge of the theory of the sophistic type of oratory. They can be found in Spengel's Rhetores Graeci, iii. 331- 446....

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Menippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek philosopher of Gadara in Syria, who flourished about B.C. 250. He was originally a slave, and afterwards an adherent of the Cynic School of philosophy. His writings (now completely lost) treated of the follies of mankind, especially of philosophers, in a sarcastic tone. They were a medley of prose and verse, and became models for the satiri...

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Melas in Wikipedia

Melas can be * Pavlos Melas (1870–1904), an officer of the Greek army. * Panagiotis Melas, Greek politician and member of the Greek Parliament. * The village where Pavlos Melas died (coordinates 40° 42' N 021° 16' E). * Michael von Melas, an Austrian field marshal during the Napoleonic Wars * MELAS - Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Ac...

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Melissus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Samian philosopher of Eleatic tendencies. He is probably not the person who commanded the fleet opposed to Pericles in B.C. 440, but of earlier date. Only fragments of his work remain....

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Menecrates of Ephesus in Wikipedia

Menecrates of Ephesus (330-270 BC) was an ancient Greek didactic poet of the Hellenistic period. [1] He wrote a poem Works after the model of Hesiod's Works and Days, which included a discussion of bees based on the work of Aristotle. He was the teacher of the astronomical poet Aratus.[2]....

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Meno in Wikipedia

Meno (Ancient Greek: Μένων) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such as justice or temperance. The goal is a common definition that applies equally to all particular virtu...

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Melas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Μέλας). The name of several rivers, whose waters were a dark colour. 1. A small river in Boeotia, flowing between Orchomenus and Aspledon. 2. A river of Thessaly, in the district Malis, falling into the Malic Gulf. 3. A river of Thessaly in Phthiotis, falling into the Apidanus. 4. A river of Thrace, falling into the Melas Sinus. 5. A river in...

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Memnon of Rhodes in Wikipedia

Memnon of Rhodes (380 – 333 BC) was the commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian king Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Persia in 334 BC. He commanded the mercenaries at the Battle of the Granicus River, where his troops were massacred by the victorious Macedonians. He then began a campaign to capture the Ae...

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