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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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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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Herodotus in Wikipedia

Herodotus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος Hēródotos) was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC). He was born in Caria, Halicarnassus (modern day Bodrum, Turkey). He is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture. He was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to ...

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Herodiānus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Aelius. A celebrated grammarian, son of Apollonius Dyscolus, and a native of Alexandria, from which place he went to Rome, where he secured the favour of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, to whom he dedicated his work on prosody (Καθολικὴ Προσῳδία), in twentyone books. His reputation in antiquity was very great, so that Priscian styles him maximus aucto...

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Hesychius of Alexandria in Wikipedia

Hesychius of Alexandria (῾Ησύχιος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς), a grammarian who flourished probably in the 5th century CE, compiled the richest lexicon of unusual and obscure Greek words that has survived (in a single 15th century manuscript). The work, titled "Alphabetical Collection of All Words" (Συναγωγή Πασών Λέξεων κατά Στοιχείον), includes approximately ...

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Hipparchus (son of Peisistratos) in Wikipedia

Hipparchus or Hipparch (Ἵππαρχος) (d. 514 BCE) was a ruler of Athens. He was one of the sons of Peisistratos. Although he was said among Greeks to have been the tyrant of Athens along with his brother Hippias when Pisistratus died, about 527 BC, in actuality, according to Thucydides, Hippias was the tyrant. Hipparchus was a patron of the arts; and...

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Hypatia in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ὑπατία). A mathematician of Alexandria, daughter of Theon , and still more celebrated than her father. She was born about the end of the fourth century. In her studies she applied herself in particular to the philosophy of Plato. Following the example of her master, she resolved to add to her information by travelling; and, having reached Athens, ...

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Hippodamus of Miletus in Wikipedia

Hippodamus of Miletos (or Hippodamos, Greek: Ἱππόδαμος ο Μιλήσιος) (498 BC - 408 BC) was an ancient Greek architect, urban planner, physician, mathematician, meteorologist and philosopher and is considered to be the "father" of urban planning, the namesake of Hippodamian plan of city layouts (grid plan). He was born in Miletos and lived during the ...

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