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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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Iktinos in Wikipedia

Iktinos (in Latin Ictinus) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC.[1][2] Ancient sources identify Iktinos and Kallikrates as co-architects of the Parthenon. Pausanias identifies Iktinos as architect of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. That temple was Doric on the exterior, Ionic on the interior, and incorporated a Corinthian column, the ...

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Irenaeus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εἰρηναῖος). A native of Greece, disciple of Polycarp, and bishop of Lyons, in France. The time of his birth and the precise place of his nativity cannot be satisfactorily ascertained. On the martyrdom of Photinus, his predecessor in the see of Lyons, Irenaeus, who had been a distinguished member of the church in that quarter, was appointed his suc...

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Iamblichus in Wikipedia

Iamblichus, also known as Iamblichus Chalcidensis, (Ancient Greek: Ἰάμβλιχος, probably from Syriac or Aramaic ya-mlku, "He is king", c. 245-c. 325) was an Assyrian[1][2] Neoplatonist philosopher who determined the direction taken by later Neoplatonic philosophy. He is perhaps best known for his compendium on Pythagorean philosophy. Iamblichus' lif...

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Kerykes in Wikipedia

The Kerykes (Greek: Κήρυκες) were one of the sacred Eleusinian families of priests that ran the Eleusinian Mysteries during the Hellenic era. They popularized the cult and allowed many more to be initiated into the great secrets of Demeter and Persephone. Starting about 300 BC, the state took over control of the Mysteries, specifically controlled b...

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Laïs in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The elder, a native probably of Corinth, lived in the time of the Peloponnesian War, and was celebrated as the most beautiful woman of that age. She was notorious also for her avarice and caprice. One of her lovers was the Cyrenaic philosopher Aristippus, two of whose works were inscribed with her name. In her old age she took to drink. At her deat...

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Ictīnus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἰκτῖνος). One of the most famous architects of Greece; he flourished in the second half of the fifth century B.C., and was a contemporary of Pericles and Phidias. His most famous works were the Parthenon on the Acropolis at Athens, and the temple of Apollo at Bassae, near Phigalia in Arcadia. Of both these edifices important remains are in existen...

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