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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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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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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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Leochăres in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λεωχάρης). A Greek sculptor, of Athens, who (about B.C. 350) was engaged with Scopas in the adornment of the Mausoleum (q.v.) of Halicarnassus. One of his most famous works was the bronze group of Ganymede and the Eagle, a work remarkable for its ingenious composition, which boldly ventures to the verge of what is allowed by the laws of sculpture,...

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Leotychidas in Wikipedia

Leotychidas [Leotychides, Latychidas] (Ancient Greek: Λεωτυχίδας; c. 545 BC–469 BC) was a ruler of Sparta 491 BC-476 BC. He led Spartan forces during the Persian Wars from 490 BC to 478 BC. He is not to be confused with another Eurypontid Leotychides, the (allegedly illegitimate) son of Agis II. Born in Sparta around 545 BC, Leotychidas was a desc...

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Leon of Sparta in Wikipedia

Leon (Greek: Λέων), was King of Sparta from 590 to 560 BC. leon means lion. He was the son of Eurycratides and like him was mentioned in the seventh book of The Histories by Herodotus. He is said to have, like his father, fought to a draw with the Tegeans. He was succeeded on the throne by Anaxandridas II, who managed to defeat Tegea....

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Leotychĭdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

The reputed son of Agis II., excluded from the throne in consequence of his being suspected to be the son of Alcibiades by Timaea, the queen of Agis. His uncle, Agesilaüs II., was therefore substituted in his stead (Hellen. iii. 3)....

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Libanius in Wikipedia

Libanius (Greek: Λιβάνιος, Libanios; ca. 314-ca. 394) was a Greek-speaking teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and regarded himself as a Hellene in religious matters. He was born into a once-influential, deeply cultured family of Antioch that had recent...

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Longus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Αόγγος). A writer who probably lived in the third century A.D. He was the author of a Greek pastoral romance, Daphnis and Chloe, in four books. It is considered the best of all ancient romances which have come down to us, on account of its deep and natural feeling, its grace of narrative, and the comparative purity and ease of its language. It has...

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Libanius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λιβάνιος). A Greek rhetorician of Antioch in Syria, born A.D. 314. His education was begun in his native city and completed at Athens, where he became a public teacher at the early age of twenty-five. Called from Athens to Constantinople in 340, he met with extraordinary success; at the same time he excited the envy of his rivals, whose slanders l...

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