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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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Irenaeus in Wikipedia

Saint Irenaeus (Greek: Εἰρηναῖος), (2nd century AD – c. 202) was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire (now Lyons, France). He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology. He was a hearer of Polycarp,[1] who in turn was a disciple of John the Evangeli...

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Hypsicles in Wikipedia

Hypsicles (Ancient Greek: Ὑψικλῆς; ca. 190 BCE - ca. 120 BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer known for authoring On Ascensions (Ἀναφορικός) and the spurious Book XIV of Euclid's Elements. Life and work Although little is known about the life of Hypsicles, it is believed that he authored the astronomical work On Ascensions (Ἀναφο...

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Ibycus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ἴβυκος). A Greek lyric and erotic poet of Rhegium in Lower Italy, who flourished about B.C. 530. Like Anacreon, he led a roving life, and spent much of his time at the court of Polycrates of Samos. According to his epitaph, he died in his native town; but according to the legend made familiar by Schiller's poem, he was slain on a journey to Corint...

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