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Eusebius of Caesarea in Wikipedia

Eusebius of Caesarea, c. 263–339 AD, called Eusebius Pamphili, became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Eusebius, historian, exegete and polemicist is one of the more renowned Church Fathers. He (with Pamphilus) was a scholar of the Biblical canon. He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel, and On Disc...

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Exekias in Wikipedia

Exekias (Εξηκίας, a Greek name) was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter, who worked between approximately 550 BC - 525 BC at Athens. Most of his vases, however, were exported to other regions of the Mediterranean, such as Etruria, while some of his other works remained in Athens[1].Exekias worked mainly with a technique called black-figure. Th...

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Gorgias in Wikipedia

Gorgias (Greek: Γοργίας, ca. 485-c.380 BCE)[1] "the Nihilist", Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other...

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Harmodius and Aristogeiton in Wikipedia

Harmodius (Ἁρμόδιος / Harmódios) and Aristogeiton (Ἀριστογείτων / Aristogeítôn), both d. 514 BC in ancient Athens. They became known as the Tyrannicides (τυραννοκτόνοι) after they killed the Peisistratid tyrant Hipparchus, and were the preeminent symbol of democracy to ancient Athenians. Background The principal historical sources covering the two...

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Hecato of Rhodes Wikipedia

Hecato or Hecaton of Rhodes (Greek: Ἑκάτων; fl. c. 100 BC) was a Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Rhodes, and a disciple of Panaetius,[1] but nothing else is known of his life. It is clear that he was eminent amongst the Stoics of the period. He was a voluminous writer, but nothing remains. Diogenes Laertius mentions six treatises written by ...

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Eusebius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Pamphĭli. One of the most distinguished of the earlier Christian writers, the friend of Constantine, born in Palestine, probably at Caesarea, about A.D. 264. He pursued his studies at Antioch, and is believed to have received holy orders from Agapius, bishop of Caesarea. After having been ordained presbyter, he set up a school in his native city, a...

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Favorinus in Wikipedia

Favorinus of Arelata (ca. 80–160 AD) was a Hellenistic sophist and philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian. He was of Gaulish ancestry, born in Arelate (Arles). He is described as a hermaphrodite (ανδροθηλυς) by birth. He received an exquisite education, first in Gallia Narbonensis and then in Rome, and at an early age began his lif...

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Gorgias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek sophist and rhetorician, known as "the Nihilist," a native of Leontini in Sicily. In B.C. 427, when already advanced in years, he came to Athens on an embassy from his native city, to implore aid against the Syracusans. The finished style of his speaking excited general admiration. He was successful in the object of his mission, and immedia...

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Harmodius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἁρμόδιος). An Athenian who, together with Aristogīton (Ἀριστογείτων), became the cause of the overthrow of the Pisistratidae. The names of Harmodius and Aristogiton were immortalized by the gratitude of the Athenians. Aristogiton was a citizen of the middle class; Harmodius a youth distinguished by the comeliness of his person. They were both perh...

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Euthydemus in Wikipedia

Euthydemus I Euthydemus I (Greek: Ευθύδημος Α΄) (c. 260 BC - 200/195 BC), Greco-Bactrian king in about 230 or 223 BCE according to Polybius.[1], he is thought to have originally been a Satrap of Sogdiana, who overturned the dynasty of Diodotus of Bactria and became a Greco-Bactrian king. Strabo, on the other hand, correlates his accession with inte...

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