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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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Hegesistratus in Wikipedia

Hegesistratus was a soothsayer for Mardonius during the Greco-Persian Wars. Originally an Elean, he had been captured by Sparta and put in bonds. He escaped by cutting off a piece of his own foot; however, he was captured again and put to death. This story is mentioned in the ninth book of the Histories written by Herodotus....

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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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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 The first historical reference to Hermocrates is at the congress of Gela in 424 BC, where he gave a speech demanding the Sicilian Greeks to stop their quarrelling.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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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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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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Gelo in Wikipedia

Gelo (or Gelon, d. 478 BC, Greek: Γέλων; gen: Γέλωνος), son of Deinomenes, was a 5th century BC ruler of Gela and Syracuse and first of the Deinomenid rulers. Early life Gelo was the son of Deinomenes, a Sicilian tyrant king of Gela who was best known for conquering Catania on the east coast of Sicily. The historian Herodotus writes that his ances...

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Gregory of Nyssa in Wikipedia

St. Gregory of Nyssa (Greek: Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Νύσσης; Latin: Gregorius Nyssenus; Armenian: Գրիգոր Նիւսացի; Arabic: غريغوريوس النيصي‎) (c 335 – after 394) was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory Nazianzus. His significance has long been recognized in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Ort...

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Euthymides in Wikipedia

Euthymides was an ancient Athenian potter and painter of vases, primarily active between 515 and 500 BC. He was a member of the Greek art movement later to be known as "The Pioneers" for their exploration of the new decorative style known as red-figure pottery.[1] Euthymides was the teacher of another Athenian red-figure vase painter, the Kleophrad...

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