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Menexenus in Wikipedia

Menexenus (Greek: Μενέξενоς) was one of three sons of Socrates and Xanthippe. His two brothers were Lamprocles and Sophroniscus. Menexenus is not to be confused with the character of the same name who appears in Plato's dialogues Menexenus and Lysis. Socrates' sons Menexenus and Sophroniscus were mere children at the time of their father's trial an...

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Meton of Athens in Wikipedia

Meton of Athens (Greek: Μέτων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th century BCE. He is best known for the 19-year Metonic cycle which he introduced in 432 BCE into the lunisolar Attic calendar. Meton found that 19 solar years are almost equal to 235 lunar months, both totalling 6940...

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Melanthius in Wikipedia

Melanthius (Μελάνθιος) was a notable ancient Greek painter of the 4th century BC. He belonged to the school of Sicyon, which was noted for fine drawing....

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Melētus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Μέλητος) or Melītus (Μέλιτος). An obscure tragic poet, but notorious as one of the accusers of Socrates (q.v.). It was he who made the formal accusation before the archon; but he was really the least important of the three accusers, and is said to have been bribed to take part in the proceedings. After the death of Socrates, Meletus was stoned to ...

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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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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 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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