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Heraclīdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Surnamed Pontĭcus. A Greek philosopher, born at Heraclea in Pontus about B.C. 380. He came early to Athens, where he became a disciple of Plato and Aristotle, and had made a reputation by about B.C. 340. He was the author of some sixty works on a great variety of subjects-philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, poetry, political and literary histo...

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Hermias (philosopher) in Wikipedia

Hermias (or Hermeias) was a Neoplatonist philosopher who was born in Alexandria c. 410 AD. He went to Athens and studied philosophy under Syrianus. He married Aedesia, who was a relative of Syrianus, and who had originally been betrothed to Proclus, but Proclus broke the engagement off after receiving a divine warning. Hermias brought Syrianus' tea...

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Hegesias of Cyrene in Wikipedia

Hegesias (Greek: Ἡγησίας; fl. 290 BCE[1]) of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that happiness is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life was the avoidance of pain and sorrow. Conventional values such as wealth, poverty, freedom, and slavery are all indifferent and produce no more pleasure than pain. Cicero claims that Hegesias w...

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Hegesias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A famous Cyrenaic philosopher who flourished about B.C. 340, and known as Πεισιθάνατος from his arguments in favor of suicide. See Cyrenaici....

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Hero of Alexandria in Wikipedia

Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (Greek: Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς) (c. 10–70 AD) was an ancient Greek mathematician who was a resident of a Roman province (Ptolemaic Egypt); he was also an engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity[1] and his work is representative of the Hellenistic sci...

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Heliodorus in Wikipedia

Heliodorus is a Greek name meaning "Gift of the Sun". People Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are: * Heliodorus a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator ca. 175 BC * Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador who erected famous votive Heliodorus pillar near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India * Heliodorus...

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Heraclides Ponticus in Wikipedia

Heraclides Ponticus (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός; c. 390-c. 310 BC[1]), also known as Herakleides and Heraklides of Pontus, was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey. He is best remembered for proposing that the earth rotates on its axis, from east to west, once every 24 hours.[2] H...

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Hermias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Christian writer towards the close of the second century, a native of Galatia, who has left a short discourse in ridicule of the pagan philosophers, entitled Διασυρμὸς τῶν ἔξω Φιλοσόφων. It appears to be an imitation of a discourse of Tatian's, but it is an imitation by a man of ability. He ridicules the want of harmony that prevails among the sy...

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Hero in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

1. A native of Alexandria and disciple of Ctesibius, who flourished about B.C. 125. He placed engineering and land-surveying on a scientific basis, and was celebrated as a mechanician, and invented the hydraulic clock, the machine called "the fountain of Hero ," and a forcing-pump used as a fire-engine. (See Ctesibica Machina.) He enjoyed a high re...

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Heliodōrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. A Greek poet, from whom sixteen hexameters are cited by Stobaeus (Serm. 98), containing a description of that part of Campania situated between the Lucrine Lake and Puteoli, and where Cicero had a country residence. Some suppose him to have been the same with the rhetorician Heliodorus mentioned by Horace ( Sat. i. 5.2), as one of the companions...

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