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Ibycus in Wikipedia

Ibycus (Ancient Greek: Ἴβυκος) (6th century BC), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. The extant fragments of his work contain the earliest-known example of the triadic choral lyric and epinician poetry.[citation needed] Life Ibycus was born in Rhegium...

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Iphicrătes in Wikipedia

（Ἰφικράτης). A famous Athenian general, son of a shoemaker. He introduced into the Athenian army the peltastae or targeteers, a body of troops possessing, to a certain extent, the advantages of heavy and light armed forces. This he effected by substituting a small target for the heavy shield, adopting a longer sword and spear, and replacing the old...

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Caranus (king) in Wikipedia

Caranus or Karanus (Greek: Κάρανος, 808-778 BC) was the first king of ancient Macedon according to later traditions. According to Herodotus the first king was Perdicas. King Karanus is first reported by Theopompus[1] (FGrH, No. 115, Frag. 393) Karanus According to Greek myth, Karanus was son of Temenus, king of Argos, who in turn was a Heracleidae...

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Lacȳdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λακύδης). A philosopher of Cyrené, who filled the chair of the Platonic School at Athens after the death of Arcesilaüs. He assumed this office about the year B.C. 245. He is said to have been the founder of a new school, not because he introduced any new doctrines, but because he changed the place of instruction, and held his school in the garden ...

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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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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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Karkinos in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Karkinos or Carcinus (a transliteration of the Greek word for "crab") was a crab that came to the aid of the Lernaean Hydra as it battled Heracles, bottom left. Karkinos bit Heracles in the foot, but was crushed beneath the hero's heel. For its efforts, however, Hera placed the crab amongst the stars as the constellation Cancer....

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Lais of Corinth in Wikipedia

Lais of Corinth was a famous hetaera or courtesan of ancient Greece who was probably born in Corinth. Another hetaera (a younger one) with the same name was Lais of Hyccara. Since ancient authors in their -usually indirect- accounts often confuse them or do not indicate which they refer to, the two are inextricably linked. Lais lived during the Pel...

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Hypsĭcles in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ὑψικλῆς). An astronomer of Alexandria, who flourished under Ptolemy Physcon, about B.C. 146. He is considered by some to have been the author of the fourteenth book appended to Euclid's Elements, in which he discussed the regular solids. No one, however, disputes his claim to a small work entitled Περὶ τῆς τῶν Ζωδίων Ἀναφορᾶς, in which he gives a ...

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