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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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Galen in Wikipedia

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (September AD 129 – 199/217; Greek: Γαληνός, Galēnos, from adjective "γαληνός", "calm"[1]), better known as Galen of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama, Turkey), was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher.[2][3][4] Arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen contributed gr...

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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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Eutychides in Wikipedia

Eutychides (Greek: Εὐτυχίδης) of Sicyon in Corinthia, Greek sculptor of the latter part of the 4th century BC, was a pupil of Lysippus. His most noted work was a statue of Tyche, which he made for the city of Antioch, then newly founded. The goddess, who embodied the idea of the city, was seated on a rock, crowned with towers, and having the river ...

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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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Gorgidas in Wikipedia

Gorgidas (Ancient Greek: Γοργίδας) was the first known Theban military leader of the Sacred Band of Thebes. Plutarch chronicled their exploits. Gorgidas, around 378 BC, first established the Sacred Band by choosing couples from his army. Plutarch in his Life of Pelopidas said this was Gorgidas' inspiration: "Since the lovers, ashamed to be base in...

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Harpalus in Wikipedia

Harpalus son of Machatas was an aristocrat of Macedon and boyhood friend of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. Being lame in a leg, and therefore exempt from military service, Harpalus did not follow Alexander in his advance within the Persian Empire but received nonetheless a post in Asia Minor. Alexander reportedly contacted him with a de...

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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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Harpălus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Macedonian, appointed by Alexander the Great superintendent of the royal treasury, with the administration of the satrapy of Babylon. Having embezzled large sums of money, he crossed over to Greece in B.C. 324, and employed his treasures in gaining over the leading men at Athens to support him against Alexander and his vicegerent, Antipater. He i...

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