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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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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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Herostrătus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἡρόστρατος). An Ephesian who set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus on the same night that Alexander the Great was born, B.C. 356, in order to immortalize himself. The Ephesians passed a decree condemning his name to oblivion, but as might naturally be expected, this only increased his notoriety, and made him more absolutely certain of the a...

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Hippocrates in Wikipedia

Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC) - Greek: Ἱπποκράτης; Hippokrátēs was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Athens), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the father of Western medicine[2][3][4] in recognition of his lasting con...

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Homer in Wikipedia

Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) in classical tradition is the ancient Greek epic poet, author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric Hymns and other works. Homer's epics stand at the beginning of the western canon of literature, exerting enormous influence on the history of fiction and literature in general. The date of Ho...

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Hesiod in Wikipedia

Hesiod (Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 650 and 750 BC.[2][3] Since at least Herodotus's time (Histories, 2.53), Hesiod and Homer have generally been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived, and they are often paired. Scholars disagree about who lived first...

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Hippocleides in Wikipedia

Hippocleides (Ἱπποκλείδης), the son of Teisander (Τείσανδρος), was an Athenian nobleman, who served as Eponymous Archon for the year 566 BC-565 BC. He was a member of the Philaidae, a wealthy Athenian family which was opposed to the family of Peisistratus. During his term as archon he set up the statue of Athena Promachos (πρὀμαχος) in Athens and ...

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Histiaeus in Wikipedia

Histiaeus (died 494 BC), the son of Lysagoras, was the tyrant of Miletus in the late 6th century BC. Histiaeus owed his status as tyrant of Miletus to Darius I, king of Persia, who had subjugated Miletus and the other Ionian states in Asia Minor. According to Herodotus[1], Histiaeus, along with the other tyrants under Darius' rule, took part in t...

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Hierocles of Alexandria in Wikipedia

Hierocles of Alexandria was a Greek Neoplatonist writer who was active around AD 430. He studied under Plutarch (the Neoplatonist) at Athens in the early 5th century, and taught for some years in his native city. He seems to have been banished from Alexandria and to have taken up his abode in Constantinople, where he gave such offence that he was ...

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