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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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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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Isaeus in Wikipedia

Isaeus (Latin; Greek Ἰσαῖος Isaios), fl. early 4th century BC. One of the ten Attic Orators according to the Alexandrian canon. He was a student of Isocrates in Athens, and later taught Demosthenes while working as a metic speechwriter for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth. They are mostly concerned with inher...

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Lacedaimonius in Wikipedia

Lacedaimonius was an Athenian general, the son of Cimon. Like his father and grandfather (the famous Miltiades) Lacedaimonius was a general and served Athens. His name comes from Lacedaimon, another name for the City-State of Sparta. Cimon so admired the Spartans he showed them a sign of goodwill by naming his son after their city....

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Coenus in Wikipedia

Coenus or Koinos may refer to: Coenus (king) Coenus or Koinos (Greek: Κοῖνος), after Karanus, was the second king of the ancient kingdom of Macedon. The Macedonian historian Marsyas of Pella relates the following aetiological story regarding his name[1][2]: a certain Knopis from Colchis came to Macedonia and lived in the court of Caranus; when th...

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Lais of Hyccara in Wikipedia

Lais of Hyccara (d. 340 BC) was a courtesan of Ancient Greece. She was probably born in Hyccara, Sicily (in the place of modern Carini) and died in Thessalia. Another hetaera (an older one) with the same name was Lais of Corinth. Since ancient authors in their (usually indirect) accounts often confuse them or do not indicate which they refer to, th...

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Iamblĭchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A NeoPlatonic philosopher, a native of Chalcis in CoeleSyria. He died about A.D. 330. He was a pupil of Porphyry and a follower of Plotinus; but pushing their teachings to the point of absurdity, became a mere charlatan and impostor, seeking the reputation of a magician and wonder-worker. His writings include (i.) a life of Pythagoras (Περὶ τοῦ Πυθ...

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Ion of Chios in Wikipedia

Ion of Chios (c. 490/480 - c. 420 BC) was a Greek writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher. He was a contemporary of Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Of his many plays and poems only a few titles and fragments have survived. He also wrote some prose works, including a Pythagorean text, the Triagmos, of which a few fragments survive. Life H...

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Isaeus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ἰσαῖος). One of the ten Attic orators. He was born at Chalcis, and came to Athens at an early age. He wrote judicial orations for others and established a rhetorical school at Athens, in which Demosthenes is said to have been his pupil. He lived between B.C. 420 and 348. Eleven of his orations are extant, all relating to questions of inheritance. ...

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Laïs in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The younger daughter of Timandra, probably born at Hyccara in Sicily. According to some accounts she was brought to Corinth when seven years old, having been taken prisoner in the Athenian expedition to Sicily, and bought by a Corinthian. This story, however, involves numerous difficulties, and seems to have arisen from a confusion between this Laï...

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