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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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