Bible History
Bible History
Choose a Category

People - Ancient Greece

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 ...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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.）...

Read More

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...

Read More

Evagŏras in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐαγόρας). King of Salamis, in Cyprus, from about B.C. 410 to 374. He was assisted by the Athenians in his wars against the Persians (Xen. Hell. ii. 1.29). There is extant an oration of Isocrates in praise of Evagoras and addressed to his son Nicocles, who succeeded him....

Read More

Glaucus of Chios in Wikipedia

According to Herodotus, Alyattes, the Lydian King and father of Croesus, gave a salver of welded iron to the Oracle of Delphi. This salver, "the most remarkable of all the offerings at Delphi," was the work of Glaucus of Chios, "the inventor of the art of welding."[1]...

Read More

Hecatomnos in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἑκατόμνως). A king of Caria, the father of Mausolus and Artemisia. See Artemisia; Mausolus....

Read More

Eurysthĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐρυσθένης). A son of Aristodemus, who reigned conjointly with his twin-brother Procles at Sparta. It was not known which of the two was born first; the mother, who wished to see both her sons raised on the throne, refused to declare it; and they were both appointed kings of Sparta by order of the oracle of Delphi, B.C. 1102. After the death of th...

Read More

Hagnothemis in Wikipedia

According to Plutarch, Hagnothemis was the authority upon which rested the belief that Antipater poisoned Alexander the Great, after he had heard King Antigonus speak of it. Plutarch gives no further biographical details for Hagnothemis, but he does state that, according to his account, Antipater undertook the assassination at Aristotle's instigati...

Read More

61 Bible Translations

Popular Articles

Explore the Bible Like Never Before!

Bible History Online

Bible Study Tools

Top Tags