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Hicĕtas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. A Syracusan, contemporary with the younger Dionysius and Timoleon. He was at first a friend of Dion, after whose death (B.C. 353) his wife Areté and his sister Aristomaché placed themselves under the care of Hicetas; but he was persuaded, notwithstanding, to consent to their destruction. A few years later he became tyrant of Leontini. He carried...

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Hippias (tyrant) in Wikipedia

Hippias of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἱππίας ὁ Ἀθηναῖος) was one of the sons of Peisistratus, and was tyrant of Athens in the 6th century BC. Hippias succeeded Peisistratus in 527 BC, and in 525 BC he introduced a new system of coinage in Athens. His brother Hipparchus, who may have ruled jointly with him, was murdered by Harmodius and Aristogeiton (t...

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Hippōnax in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἱππώναξ). A Greek iambic poet of Ephesus, who about B.C. 540 was banished to Clazomenae by Athenagoras and Comas, tyrants of his native city. At Clazomenae, two sculptors, Bupalus (Hor. Epod. vi. 14) and Athenis, made the little, thin, ugly poet ridiculous in caricature; but he avenged himself in such bitter iambic verses that, like Lycambes and h...

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Hipponicus III in Wikipedia

Hipponicus was an Athenian military commander and son of Callias II and father of Callias III and Hipparete, who later married Alcibiades. Together with Eurymedon he commanded the Athenian forces in the incursion into Boeotian territory (426 BC) and was slain at the Battle of Delium (424)...

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Hypereides in Wikipedia

Hypereides (Greek Ὑπερείδης, Hypereidēs; c. 390–322 BCE) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE. Rise to power Little is known about his early life except that he was the...

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Herophĭlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἡρόφιλος). A celebrated physician, a native of Chalcedon, of the family of the Asclepiades, and a disciple of Praxagoras. Herophilus lived under Ptolemy Soter, and was contemporary with the philosopher Diodorus, and the celebrated physician Erasistratus, with whose name his own is commonly associated in the history of anatomical science. As a phys...

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Hiero I of Syracuse in Wikipedia

Hieron I (Ἱέρων in Greek) was the son of Deinomenes, the brother of Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily from 478 to 467 BC. In succeeding Gelon, he conspired against a third brother Polyzelos. During his reign, he greatly increased the power of Syracuse. He removed the inhabitants of Naxos and Catana to Leontini, peopled Catana (which he renamed...

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Hippias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek sophist of Elis and a contemporary of Socrates. He taught in the towns of Greece, especially at Athens. He had the advantage of a prodigious memory, and was deeply versed in all the learning of his day. He attempted literature in every form which was then extant. He was among the first to undertake the composition of dialogues. In the two P...

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Herostratus in Wikipedia

Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a young man and historic arsonist seeking fame who burned down the Temple of Artemis in ancient times. Occurrence On July 21, 356 BC Herostratus set fire to the Temple at Ephesus (in what is now west coast of Turkey) in his quest for fame. The temple was constructed of marble and considered the most beau...

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Hiero II of Syracuse in Wikipedia

Hieron II (c. 308 – 215 BC), king of Syracuse from 270 to 215 BC, was the illegitimate son of a Syracusan noble, Hierocles, who claimed descent from Gelon. He was a former general of Pyrrhus of Epirus and an important figure of the First Punic War.[1] On the departure of Pyrrhus from Sicily (275 BC) the Syracusan army and citizens appointed him co...

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