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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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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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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 of Atarneus in Wikipedia

Hermias of Atarneus, who lived in Atarneus, was Aristotle's father-in-law. The first mention of Hermias is as a slave to Eubulus, a Bithynian banker who ruled Atarneus. Hermias eventually won his freedom and inherited the rule of Atarneus. Due to his policies, his control expanded to other neighboring cities, such as Assos, in Asia Minor. In his ...

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Heraclitus in Wikipedia

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος - Hērákleitos ho Ephésios; c. 535–c. 475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pion...

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Hermias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Mysian eunuch, tyrant of Assos, and the friend and patron of Aristotle, who married his adopted daughter Pythias. In B.C. 344 Hermias was seized by Mentor, the Greek general of the king of Persia, and by him sent to the Persian court, where he was put to death. (See Diog. Laert. v. 3; Diod.xvi. 52.）...

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Hegesias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek orator, born in Magnesia on Mount Sipylus in the first half of the third century B.C. He was the founder of what was termed the Asiatic style of oratory. See Rhetorica....

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Aelius Herodianus in Wikipedia

Aelius Herodianus (Latin; Greek Αἴλιος Ἡρωδιανός) or Herodian, ca. 180-250, was one of the most celebrated grammarians of Greco-Roman antiquity. He is usually known as Herodian except when there is a danger of confusion with the historian also named Herodian. He was the son of Apollonius Dyscolus and was born in Alexandria. From there he seems to ...

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Hegesias of Magnesia in Wikipedia

Hegesias of Magnesia (in Lydia), Greek rhetorician, and historian, flourished about 300 BC. Strabo (xiv. 648), speaks of him as the founder of the florid style of composition known as "Asiatic" (cf. Timaeus). Agatharchides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Cicero all speak of him in disparaging terms, although Varro seems to have approved of his wor...

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Hellanicus of Mytilene in Wikipedia

Hellanicus of Lesbos (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάνικος) was an ancient Greek logographer who flourished during the latter half of the 5th century BC. He was born in Mytilene on the isle of Lesbos in 490 BC and is reputed to have lived to the age of 85. According to the Suda, he lived for some time at the court of one of the kings of Macedon, and died at Pe...

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