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Hephaestion in Wikipedia

Hephaestion (Greek: Ἡφαιστίων, alternative spelling: "Hephaistion"; c. 356 BC – 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was a Macedonian nobleman and a general in the army of Alexander the Great. He was "... by far the dearest of all the king's friends; he had been brought up with Alexander and shared all his secrets."[1] This friendship lasted their whole lives,...

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Heraclītus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek philosopher of Ephesus, who lived about B.C. 535-475, during the time of the first Persian domination over his native city. As one of the last of the family of Androclus, the descendant of Codrus, who had founded the colony of Ephesus, Heraclitus had certain honorary regal privileges, which he renounced in favour of his brother. He likewise...

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Hermippus in Wikipedia

Hermippus was the one-eyed Athenian writer of the Old Comedy who flourished during the Peloponnesian War. He was the son of Lysis, and the brother of the comic poet Myrtilus. He was younger than Telecleides and older than Eupolis and Aristophanes. According to the Suda, he wrote forty plays, and his chief actor was Simeron, according to the scholia...

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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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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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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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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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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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