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Lysistrătus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λυσίστρατος). A statuary of Sicyon, who flourished in the 114th Olympiad. He was the brother of the celebrated Lysippus (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 12, 44). He is said to have been the first artist who made use of gypsum moulds for casts of the human face....

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Maximus of Ephesus in Wikipedia

Maximus of Ephesus (c.310-372) was a Neoplatonist philosopher. He is said to have come from a rich family, and exercised great influence over the emperor Julian, who was commended to him by Aedesius. He pandered to the emperor's love of magic and theurgy, and by judicious administration of the omens won a high position at court. His overbearing man...

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Lasus of Hermione in Wikipedia

Lasus of Hermione was a Greek lyric poet of the 6th century BC from the city of Hermione in the Argolid. He is known to have been active at Athens under the reign of the Peisistratids. Pseudo-Plutarch's De Musica credits him with innovations in the dithyramb hymn. According to Herodotus, Lasus also exposed Onomacritus's forgeries of the oracles of ...

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Leosthĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λεωσθένης). An Athenian commander of the combined Greek army in the Lamian War, slain by a stone while besieging Antipater in the town of Lamia, B.C. 322. His funeral discourse was pronounced by Hyperides....

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Leosthenes in Wikipedia

Leosthenes (in Greek Λεωσθένης; died 323 BC) was an Athenian, commander of the combined Greek army in the Lamian war. We know not by what means he had obtained the high reputation which we find him enjoying when he first makes his appearance in history: it has been generally inferred, from a passage in Strabo[1], that he had first served under Alex...

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Leucippus in Wikipedia

Leucippus or Leukippos (Greek: Λεύκιππος, first half of 5th century BC) was one of the earliest Greeks to develop the theory of atomism - the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms - which was elaborated in far greater detail by his pupil and successor, Democritus. Another possible earli...

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Leucippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Grecian philosopher, the founder of the atomic theory of philosophy, which was more fully developed by Democritus (Diog. Laert. ix. 30, 34). His date is uncertain. See Democritus; Epicurus....

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Longīnus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Dionysius Cassius (Αογγῖνος). A Greek rhetorician, born at Athens about A.D. 213, who studied Neoplatonism at Alexandria, and practised as teacher of philosophy, grammar (i. e. literary criticism), and rhetoric, in his native city, from about 260, until the accomplished queen Zenobia of Palmyra summoned him as minister to her court. As he persuaded...

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Leochares in Wikipedia

Leochares (Greek: Λεοχάρης) was a Greek sculptor from Athens, who lived in the 4th century BC. Works Leochares worked at the construction of the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". The Diana of Versailles is a Roman copy of his original (circa 325 BC). He is also thought to be the creator of t...

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Longus in Wikipedia

Longus, sometimes Longos (Greek: Λόγγος), was a Greek novelist and romancer, and author of Daphnis and Chloe. Very little is known of his life, and it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD It has been suggested[by whom?] that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the las...

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