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Hermagŏras in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. Of Temnos, a distinguished Greek rhetorician of the time of Cicero, belonging to the Rhodian school of oratory (Quint.iii. 1.16). 2. A Greek rhetorician, surnamed Carion, who taught rhetoric at Rome in the time of Augustus (Quint.iii. 1.18)....

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Hermocrătes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἑρμοκράτης). One of the Syracusan generals, when the Athenians attacked Syracuse, B.C. 414. He was banished by the Syracusans (410 B.C.), and having endeavoured to effect his restoration by force of arms and with the aid of the Persian satrap Pharnabazus, was slain in 407. See Peloponnesian War....

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Agesander of Rhodes in Wikipedia

Agesander (Gr. Άγήσανδρος, also Agesandros, Hagesander, Hagesandros, or Hagesanderus) was a sculptor from the island of Rhodes.[1] His name occurs in no author except Pliny,[2] and until very recently we have known of only one work which he executed, albeit one very highly renowned work. In conjunction with Polydorus and Athenodorus, Agesander scul...

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Heliocles I in Wikipedia

The Greco-Bactrian Heliocles, circ. 145-130 BCE, relative (son or brother) and successor of Eucratides the Great, was probably the last Greek king who reigned over the Bactrian country. His reign was a troubled one. According to Roman historian Justin, Eucratides was murdered by his son and co-ruler, though Justin fails to name the perpetrator. The...

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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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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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