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Hegesippus in Wikipedia

The Greek name Hegesippos, commonly Latinized as Hegesippus can refer to the following persons: Hegesippus (orator) Hegesippus was a statesman and orator, nicknamed "knot", probably from the way in which he wore his hair. He lived in the time of Demosthenes, of whose anti-Macedonian policy he was an enthusiastic supporter. In 343 BC, he was one of...

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Hephaestion in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. A Macedonian, celebrated as the friend of Alexander the Great, with whom he had been brought up. He died at Ecbatana, B.C. 325, to the great grief of Alexander, who ordered mourning for him throughout the whole Empire. 2. A Greek scholar, a native of Alexandria, who flourished about the middle of the second century A.D., and was tutor to the em...

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King Hermaeus in Wikipedia

Hermaeus Soter "the Saviour" was a Western Indo-Greek king of the Eucratid Dynasty, who ruled the territory of Paropamisade in the Hindu-Kush region, with his capital in Alexandria of the Caucasus (near today's Kabul, Afghanistan). Bopearachchi dates Hermaeus to circa 90 - 70 BCE and R C Senior to circa 95 - 80 BCE but concedes that Bopearachchi's ...

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Hermippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek poet of the Old Comedy, an elder contemporary of Aristophanes and a bitter opponent of Pericles (Pericl. 32, 33), whose mistress, Aspasia, he prosecuted on a charge of atheism. Only a few fragments of his dramas, as also of his libellous iambic poems, after Archilochus's manner, have been preserved. They are remarkable for the cleverness of...

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Hedylus in Wikipedia

Hedylus son of Melicertus, a native of Samos or Athens, was an epigrammatic poet. His epigrams were included in the Garland of Meleager (Prooem. 45.) Eleven of them are in the Greek Anthology , but the genuineness of two of these (ix. and x.) is very doubtful. Most of his epigrams are in praise of wine, and all of them are jocular. In some he descr...

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Hegesippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἡγήσιππος). An Athenian orator and a contemporary of Demosthenes, to whose political party he belonged. The grammarians ascribe to him the oration on Halonesus, which has come down to us under the name of Demosthenes....

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Hephaistio of Thebes in Wikipedia

Hephaistio of Thebes (also called Hephaestion or Hephaistion) (fl. ca. 415 CE) was a Late Antiquity astrologer of Egyptian descent who wrote a work in Greek known as the Apotelesmatics (Apotelesmatika) in the early 5th century. Much of the work appears to be an attempt to synthesize the earlier works of the 1st century astrologer Dorotheus of Sidon...

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Hermocrates in Wikipedia

Hermocrates (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμοκράτης) was a general of Syracuse during the Athenians' Sicilian Expedition. The first historical reference to Hermocrates is at the congress of Gela in 424 BC, where he gave a speech demanding the Sicilian Greeks to stop their quarrelling. [1] In 415 BC he proposed a coalition that would even include non-Sicilian c...

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Hermagoras in Wikipedia

Hermagoras may refer to: Hermagoras of Amphipolis Hermagoras of Amphipolis (Greek: Ἑρμαγόρας ὁ Ἀμφιπολίτης) (3rd century BC) was a Stoic philosopher, student of Cypriot Persaeus, in the court of Antigonus II Gonatas. He wrote several dialogues, among them a Misokyōn (Μισοκύων, Dog-hater, Cynic-hater); one volume On Misfortunes; Έκχυτος Ekchytos (a...

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Hegemon of Thasos in Wikipedia

Hegemon of Thasos (Greek: ήγεμών ό Θάσος) was a Greek writer of the Old Comedy. Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the Peloponnesian War. According to Aristotle (Poetics, ii. 5) he was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the sublime into the ridiculous....

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