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Lamprocles in Wikipedia

Lamprocles was Socrates' and Xanthippe's eldest son. His two brothers were Menexenus and Sophroniscus. Lamprocles was only a lad (meirakion) at the time of Socrates' trial and death. According to Aristotle, Socrates' descendants as a whole turned out to be unremarkable: "silly and dull"....

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Leonnātus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λεοννάτος). A Macedonian of Pella, one of Alexander's generals. At the assault on the city of the Malli in India he saved Alexander's life. He crossed over into Europe in B.C. 322, to assist Antipater against the Greeks; but was defeated by the Athenians and their allies, and fell in battle (Diod.xviii. 12-15)....

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Lesches in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λέσχης) or Lescheus (Λέσχευς). A Cyclic poet, a native of Mitylené or Pyrrha, in the island of Lesbos, and considerably later than Arctinus. The best authorities concur in placing him in the time of Archilochus, or about B.C. 708-676. Hence the account which we find in ancient authors, of a contest between Arctinus and Lesches, can only mean that ...

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Longinus (literature) in Wikipedia

Longinus (Greek: Λογγῖνος, Longĩnos) is the conventional name of the author of the treatise, On the Sublime (Περὶ ὕψους, Perì hýpsous), a work which focuses on the effect of good writing.[1] Longinus, sometimes referred to as pseudo-Longinus because his real name is unknown, was a Greek teacher of rhetoric or a literary critic who may have lived in...

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Lycurgus of Arcadia in Wikipedia

Lycurgus, in Greek mythology, was the king of Arcadia. He was the son of Aleus, the previous ruler, and Neaera, daughter of Proteus. Lycurgus married either Cleophyle or Eurynome and bore these sons: Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Iasius.[1]...

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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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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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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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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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