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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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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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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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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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Hippodămus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἱππόδαμος). A Greek architect, born at Miletus in the second half of the fifth century B.C. He was the first inventor of a system of laying out towns on geometrical principles, carried out, under his direction, in the laying out of the Piraeus (q. v.), the harbour-town of Athens, and also at the building of Thurii (B.C. 443) and of Rhodes (408 B.C...

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Herodŏtus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A celebrated Greek historian, born at Halicarnassus in Caria, B.C. 484 (Clinton, Fasti Hellenici, vol. i. p. 29, 2d ed.). He was of Dorian extraction, and of a distinguished family. His father was named Lyxes, his mother Rhoeo or Dryo. Panyasis, an eminent epic poet, whom some ranked next to Homer, was his uncle either by the mother's or father's s...

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Hesychius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek grammarian of Alexandria, who lived probably towards the end of the fourth century A.D. He composed, with the assistance of the works of earlier lexicographers (especially the Περιεργοπένητες of Diogenianus), a lexicon (Γλῶσσαι), which has come down to us in a very confused form, but is nevertheless among the most important sources of our k...

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Hipparchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. A son of Pisistratus. (See Pisistratidae.) 2. A Greek mathematician, the founder of scientific astronomy. He was born at Nicaea in Bithynia about B.C. 160, lived chiefly at Rhodes and Alexandria, and died about B.C. 120. He discovered the precession of the equinoxes, settled more accurately the length of the solar year, as also of the revolutio...

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Hyperbolus in Wikipedia

Hyperbolus (Ancient Greek: Ὑπέρβολoς, Hypérbolos) was an Athenian politician active during the first half of the Peloponnesian war, coming to particular prominence after the death of Cleon. Like Cleon, he counts as a demagogue, one who exercised power solely through speech in the assembly. Unlike Cleon, Hyperbolos did not have a noble background, ...

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