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Mentor of Rhodes in Wikipedia

Mentor of Rhodes (Μέντωρ ὁ Ῥόδιος) (c. 385 BC – 340 BC) was a Greek mercenary who fought both for and against Artaxerxes III of Persia. He is also known as the first husband of Barsine, who later became mistress to Alexander the Great. In 358 BC, Mentor, along with his brother Memnon, were hired to provide military leadership by a rebel Persian sa...

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Meleāger in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek epigrammatist of Gadara in Palestine, who flourished about B.C. 60. His collection of epigrams, by himself and others, entitled Stephanos (wreath), formed the nucleus of the Greek anthology. Of his own poems there remain 131, in which amatory themes are cleverly and wittily treated. See Anthology....

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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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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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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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Lysis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Λῦσις). An eminent Pythagorean philosopher, the teacher of Epaminondas (Pausan. ix. 13)....

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Marīnus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. A Tyrian geographer, who lived about the middle of the second century A.D. He was the first mathematical geographer, and was largely followed by Ptolemy. (See Ptolemaeus.) 2. A philosopher and rhetorician of Flavia Neapolis in Palestine. He succeeded Proclus (q.v.), and wrote his life, which is still extant. Edited by Boissonade (Leipzig, 1814)...

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Lycurgus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Spartan legislator of whose personal history we have no certain information; and there are such discrepancies respecting him in the ancient writers that many modern critics have denied his real existence altogether. The more generally received account about him was as follows: Lycurgus was the son of Eunomus, king of Sparta, and brother of Polyde...

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Lycurgus of Thrace in Wikipedia

Lycurgus (also Lykurgos, Lykourgos) was a mythological king of the Edoni in Thrace, and the son of Dryas, the "oak".[1] He banned the cult of Dionysus. When Lycurgus heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned Dionysus' followers, the Maenads. Dionysus fled, taking refuge with Thetis the sea nymph. Dionysus then sent a drought to Thrace. ...

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Lysanias in Wikipedia

Lysanias was the ruler of a small realm on the western slopes of Mount Hermon, attested to by the Jewish writer Josephus and in coins from circa 40 BC. There is also mention of a Lysanias dated to 29 AD in the gospel of Luke. It has been debated whether these are the same person. Lysanias in Josephus Lysanias was the ruler of a tetrarchy, centered...

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