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Zeno in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The Eleatic philosopher, a native of Elea (Velia) in Italy, son of Teleutagoras, and the favourite disciple of Parmenides. He was born about B.C. 488, and at the age of forty accompanied Parmenides to Athens. (See Parmenides.) He appears to have resided some time at Athens, and is said to have unfolded his doctrines to men like Pericles and Callias...

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Xanthippé in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ξανθίππη). The wife of the Athenian philosopher Socrates. Many anecdotes have come down in the pages of ancient writers regarding this famous woman, whose name has become proverbial in all languages as that of a typical shrew. It is likely, however, that many of these are apocryphal, and that, on the other hand, there was much in the unpractical w...

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Zeno of Sidon in wikipedia

Zeno of Sidon (c. 150-c. 75 BC[1]) was an Epicurean philosopher. His writings do not survive, but there are some epitomes of his lectures preserved among the writings of his pupil Philodemus. Life Zeno was born in the city of Sidon in Phoenicia. He was a contemporary of Cicero, who heard him when at Athens.[2][3] He was sometimes termed the "lead...

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Xenocrătes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ξενοκράτης). A philosopher, born at Chalcedon in B.C. 400. He first attached himself to Æschines, but afterwards became a disciple of Plato, who took much pains in cultivating his genius, which was naturally heavy. Plato, comparing him with Aristotle, who was also one of his pupils, called the former a dull ass who needed the spur, and the latter ...

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Xenophon of Ephesus in Wikipedia

Xenophon of Ephesus (fl. 2nd century–3rd century?) was a Greek writer. His surviving work is the Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes, one of the earliest novels as well as one of the sources for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He is not to be confused with the earlier and more famous Athenian soldier and historian, Xenophon....

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Thespis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Θέσπις). The father of Greek Tragedy. He was a contemporary of Pisistratus, and a native of Icarus, one of the demes in Attica, where the worship of Dionysus had long prevailed. The alteration made by Thespis , which gave to the old Tragedy a new and dramatic character, was very simple but very important. Before his time the leader of the Chorus h...

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Thrasymăchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Θρασύμαχος). A native of Chalcedon, was a Sophist, and one of the earliest cultivators of the art of rhetoric. He was a contemporary of Gorgias. He is one of the speakers in Plato's Republic....

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Timagĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A rhetorician and an historian, who was a native of Alexandria, from which place he was carried as a prisoner to Rome, where he opened a school of rhetoric, and taught with great success. ( Suid. s. h. v.)...

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Timoleon in Wikipedia

Timoleon (Greek: Τιμολέων), son of Timodemus, of Corinth (ca. 411–337 BCE) was a Greek statesman and general. As the champion of Greece against Carthage he is closely connected with the history of Sicily, especially Syracuse. Early life When his brother Timophanes, whose life he had saved in battle, took possession of the acropolis of Corinth and...

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Timotheus (sculptor) in Wikipedia

Timotheus (Epidaurus, ?–Epidaurus, ca. 340 BC) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, one of the rivals and contemporaries of Scopas of Paros, among the sculptors who worked for their own fame on the construction of the grave of Mausolus at Halicarnassus between 353 and 350 BC.[1] He was apparently the leading sculptor at the temple of Asklepi...

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