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Menander Rhetor in Wikipedia

Menander of Laodicea on the Lycus was a Greek rhetorician and commentator. Two incomplete treatises on epideictic (or show) speeches have been preserved under his name, but it is generally considered that they cannot be by the same author. Bursian attributes the first to Menander, whom he placed in the 4th century, and the second to an anonymous r...

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Menippus in Wikipedia

Menippus (Greek: Μένιππος; 3rd century BC) of Gadara, was a Cynic and satirist. His works, which are all lost, were an important influence on Varro and Lucian. The Menippean satire genre is named after him. Life Little is known about the life of Menippus. He was a native of Gadara in Coele-Syria.[1] The ancient sources agree that he was a slave. H...

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Meton in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Μέτων). A Greek astronomer of Athens, who instituted in B.C. 432 the cycle of nineteen years called after him; it was intended to reconcile the lunar and the solar year: 235 lunar months of 29 or 30 days (on an average 29 25/47)=19 solar years of 365 5/19 days. This cycle was not adopted at Athens till much later, probably in B.C. 330. (See Calend...

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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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