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Menander in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The chief representative of the New Comedy. He was born in B.C. 342, at Athens, of a distinguished and wealthy family, received a careful education, and led a comfortable and luxurious life, partly at Athens, and partly at his estate in the Piraeus, the harbour of Athens, enjoying the intimate friendship of his contemporary and the friend of his yo...

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Menedemus the Cynic in Wikipedia

Menedemus (Greek: Μενέδημος; 3rd century BC) was a Cynic philosopher, and a pupil of the Epicurean Colotes of Lampsacus.[1] Diogenes Laertius states that he used to go about garbed as a Fury, proclaiming himself a sort of spy from Hades: He assumed the garb of a Fury, and went about saying that he had come from Hades to take notice of all who did ...

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Mentor in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Rhodian Greek who with his brother Memnon served the Persian Artabazus and later King Nectanabis of Egypt. He aided Tennes, king of Sidon, against Darius Ochus, and, when Tennes went over to the Persians, entered the service of Darius, who made him satrap of the western part of Asia Minor (Arrian, Anab. vii. 419)....

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Amelesagoras in Wikipedia

Amelesagoras (Ancient Greek: Ἀμελησαγόρας) (or Melesagoras, Μελησαγόρας, as he is called by others) of Chalcedon, was an early Greek historian.[1] The histories of Gorgias and Eudemus of Naxos both borrowed from him.[2][3][4] Maximus Tyrius speaks of a Melesagoras, a native of Eleusis,[5] and Antigonus of Carystus of an Amelesagoras of Athens,[6] ...

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Menander I in Wikipedia

Menander I Soter "The Saviour" (known as Milinda in Indian sources) was one of the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in present-day Pakistan from either 165 or 155 BC to 130 BC (the first date Osmund Bopearachchi and R C Senior, the other Boperachchi)[1]. An important Indo-Greek king His territories covered the eastern dominions of the divided Gree...

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Metagenes in Wikipedia

Metagenes (Greek: Μεταγένης) son of the Cretan architect Chersiphron, also was an architect. He was co-architect, along with his father, of the construction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World....

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Melanippides in Wikipedia

Melanippides of Melos, one of the most celebrated lyric poets in the department of the dithyramb. The date of Melanippides can only be fixed within rather uncertain limits. He may be said, somewhat to have flourished about the middle of the 5th-century BC. He was younger than Lasus of Hermione (Plut. Mus. p. 1141, c.), and than Diagoras of Melos. ...

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Menelaus of Alexandria in Wikipedia

Menelaus of Alexandria (c. 70–140 CE) was a Greek[1] mathematician and astronomer, the first to recognize geodesics on a curved surface as natural analogs of straight lines. Life and Works Although very little is known about Menelaus's life, it is supposed that he lived in Rome, where he probably moved after having spent his youth in Alexandria. H...

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Melanippides in Wikipedia

Melanippides of Melos, one of the most celebrated lyric poets in the department of the dithyramb. The date of Melanippides can only be fixed within rather uncertain limits. He may be said, somewhat to have flourished about the middle of the 5th-century BC. He was younger than Lasus of Hermione (Plut. Mus. p. 1141, c.), and than Diagoras of Melos. ...

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Meletus in Wikipedia

The Apology of Socrates by Plato names Meletus as the chief accuser of Socrates. He is also mentioned in the Euthyphro. Given his awkwardness as an orator, and his likely age at the time of Socrates' death, many hold that he was not the real leader of the movement against the early philosopher, but rather was simply the spokesman for a group led by...

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