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Lycurgus of Nemea in Wikipedia

Lycurgus was the mythological king of Nemea. He was the husband of Eurydice and father of Opheltes....

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Lydiadas of Megalopolis in Wikipedia

Lydiadas of Megalopolis was the seventh, ninth and eleventh general of the Achaean League in Ancient Greece who served three terms from, 234 - 233, 232-231 and 230 to 229 BC....

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Lysippos in Wikipedia

Lysippos (Λύσιππος) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Together with Scopas and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic period. Problems confront the study of Lysippos because of the difficulty of identifying his style amongst the copies which sur...

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Marcellinus in Wikipedia

Marcellinus may refer to: * Pope Marcellinus, third century pope * Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman historian * Marcellinus (writer), author of the life of Thucydides * Marcellinus (magister officiorum) (d. c. 351), officer of Emperor Constans and of usurper Magnentius * Marcellinus of Gaul (d. 374), saint and evangelist * Marcellinus of Carthage...

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Lycurgus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

King of Nemea, son of Pheres and Periclymene, brother of Admetus, husband of Eurydicé or Amphithea, and father of Opheltes....

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Lysander in Wikipedia

Lysander (died 395 BC, Greek: Λύσανδρος, Lýsandros) was a Spartan general who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC. The following year, he was able to force the Athenians to capitulate, bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end; he organized the dominion of Sparta over Greece in the last...

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Megasthenes in Wikipedia

Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, ca. 350 – 290 BC) was a Greek ethnographer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work Indica. He was born in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of Syria to the court of Sandrocottus, who possibly is Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India. However the exact date of his embassy is unce...

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Lysippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λύσιππος). A native of Sicyon, and one of the most famous Greek artists, a contemporary of Alexander the Great. He was originally a worker in metal, and taught himself the art of the sculptor by studying nature and the canon of Polyclitus (q.v.). His works, which were said to amount to 1500, were all statues in bronze, and were remarkable for thei...

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Marcellus of Side in Wikipedia

Marcellus of Side (or Marcellus Sidetes; 2nd century) a native of Side in Pamphylia, was born towards the end of the 1st century, and lived in the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, 117-161. He wrote a long medical poem in Greek hexameter verse, consisting of forty-two books, which was held in such estimation, that it was ordered by the emperors...

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Megasthĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Μεγασθένης). A Greek historian, who stayed for a considerable time, as ambassador of King Seleucus Nicator, at the court of the Indian king Sandracus or Sandracottus (B.C. 315- 291), at Palibothra on the Ganges. From information about the country and the people, obtained while he occupied that position, he compiled a historical and geographical wo...

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