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Hermias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Christian writer towards the close of the second century, a native of Galatia, who has left a short discourse in ridicule of the pagan philosophers, entitled Διασυρμὸς τῶν ἔξω Φιλοσόφων. It appears to be an imitation of a discourse of Tatian's, but it is an imitation by a man of ability. He ridicules the want of harmony that prevails among the sy...

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Hero in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

1. A native of Alexandria and disciple of Ctesibius, who flourished about B.C. 125. He placed engineering and land-surveying on a scientific basis, and was celebrated as a mechanician, and invented the hydraulic clock, the machine called "the fountain of Hero ," and a forcing-pump used as a fire-engine. (See Ctesibica Machina.) He enjoyed a high re...

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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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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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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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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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Eurysthenes in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Eurysthenes (Greek: Εὐρυσθένης) was one of the Heracleidae, a great-great-great-grandson of Heracles, and a son of Aristodemus. His twin was Procles, and together they received the land of Lacedaemon after Cresphontes, Temenus and Oxylus captured the Peloponnesus. He was the mythic founder of the Agiad dynasty of the Kings of Sp...

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Glaphyra in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Γλαφύρα). A mistress of Marcus Antonius who placed her son Archelaüs on the throne of Cappadocia as a favour to her. (Dio Cass. xlix. 32.)...

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Evagoras in Wikipedia

Evagoras (in Greek: Εὐαγόρας) was the king of Salamis (410 - 374 BC) in Cyprus. The son of Nicocles, a previous king of Salamis, he claimed descent from Teucer, the son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, and his family had long been rulers of Salamis, although during his childhood Salamis came under Phoenician control, which resulted in his exile...

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