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Lycurgus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

King in Arcadia, son of Aleus and Neaera, brother of Cepheus and Augé, husband of Cleophilé, Eurynomé, or Antinoe, and father of Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Iasus. Lycurgus killed Areïthoüs, who used to fight with a club. Lycurgus bequeathed this club to his slave Ereuthalion, his sons having died before him....

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Lycus in Wikipedia

Lycus or Lykos (Greek: Λύκος), a common name for Greek rivers, seems to have originated in the impression made upon the mind of the beholder by a torrent rushing down the side of a hill, which suggested the idea of a wolf (Greek: Lykos) rushing at its prey. Lycus or Lykos may refer to: Lycus (mythology) Lycus or Lykos is the name of several peopl...

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Lysimachus in Wikipedia

Lysimachus (Greek: Λυσίμαχος, Lysimachos; 360 BCE - 281 BCE) was a Macedonian officer and diadochus (i.e. "successor") of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus ("king") in 306 BCE, ruling Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia. Early career Lysimachus was born in 362/361 BC, the son of the Thessalian Agathocles from Crannon. He was granted citizens...

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Machon in Wikipedia

Machon (fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy. He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria. Two fragments of his work survive, along with 462 verses of a book of anecdotes of the words and deeds of notorious Athenians, preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. Dioscorides wrote an epitaph for Machon that has als...

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Machon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Μάχων). A comic poet, who flourished at Alexandria about B.C. 175. He was a native of Corinth (or Sicyon), and is said to have taught the grammarian Aristophanes of Byzantium....

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Megacles in Wikipedia

Megacles (Μεγακλῆς) was the name of several notable men of ancient Athens: 1. Megacles was possibly a legendary Archon of Athens from 922 BC to 892 BC. 2. Megacles was a member of the Alcmaeonidae family, and the archon eponymous in 632 BC when Cylon made his unsuccessful attempt to take over Athens. Megacles was convicted of killing Cylon (who h...

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Lycus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

1. Son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Celaeno, married to Dircé. He assumed the government of Thebes after his brother Nycteus, for Labdacus, who was a minor; and, after the death of Labdacus, for his son Laïus. He was either killed by Amphion (q.v.) and Zethus, or (according to another account) handed the government of Thebes over to them at the behes...

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Lysimăchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λυσίμαχος). One of Alexander's generals, who obtained Thrace in the division of the provinces after Alexander's death (B.C. 323), and assumed the title of king in B.C. 306. He joined the other generals of Alexander in opposing Antigonus, and it was he and Seleucus who gained the decisive victory at Ipsus over Antigonus, in which the latter fell (B...

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Lycurgus of Athens in Wikipedia

Lycurgus (Greek: Λυκοῦργος, Lykourgos; 396–323 BC), was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE. Lycurgus was born at Athens about 396 BC, and was the son of Lycophron, who be...

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Megăcles in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. A name borne by several of the Athenian family of the Alcmaeonidae. The most important of these was the Megacles who put to death Cylon and his adherents after they had taken refuge at the altar of Athené, B.C. 612. (See Cylon.) 2. Son of Alcmaeon , son-inlaw of Clisthenes, leader of the Alcmaeonidae in the time of Solon. At first he was oppose...

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