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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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Eurybătus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐρύβατος). An Ephesian, whom Croesus sent with a large sum of money to the Peloponnesus to hire mercenaries for him in his war with Cyrus. He, however, deserted to Cyrus, and betrayed the whole matter to him. In consequence of this treachery his name passed into a proverb among the Greeks (in Ctes. 43)....

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Eurymĕdon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐρυμέδων). Son of Thucles, an Athenian general in the Peloponnesian War (Thuc.iii. 80, 81, 85)....

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Eumĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

II., king of Pergamum, who reigned B.C. 197-159, and was the son and successor of Attalus I. He inherited from his predecessor the friendship and alliance of the Romans, which he took the utmost pains to cultivate. Pergamum became under his rule a great and flourishing city, in which he founded that celebrated library that rose to be a rival even t...

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Euphrānor in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐφράνωρ). A distinguished statuary and painter. He was a native of Corinth, but practised his art at Athens about B.C. 336 (Quint.xii. 10.6; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 8). Of one of his works, a beautiful sitting Paris, we have probably a copy in the Museo Pio-Clementino. His best paintings were preserved in a porch in the Ceramicus....

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Eumenes II in Wikipedia

Eumenes II of Pergamon (Εὐμένης Β' τῆς Περγάμου) (ruled 197 - 159 BC) was king of Pergamon and a member of the Attalid dynasty. The son of king Attalus I and queen Apollonis, he followed in his father's footsteps and collaborated with the Romans to oppose first Macedonian, then Seleucid expansion towards the Aegean, leading to the defeat of Antioch...

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Eunapius in Wikipedia

Eunapius (Greek: Εὐνάπιος) was a Greek sophist and historian of the 4th century. Life He was born at Sardis, AD 347. In his native city he studied under his relative, the sophist Chrysanthius, and while still a youth went to Athens, where he became a favourite pupil of Prohaeresius the rhetorician. He possessed considerable knowledge of medicine. ...

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Euphranor in Wikipedia

Euphranor of Corinth (middle of the 4th century BC) was the only Greek artist who excelled both as a sculptor and as a painter. Pliny the Elder provides a list of his works including aa cavalry battle, a Theseus, and the feigned madness of Odysseus among the paintings; and Paris, Leto with her children Apollo and Artemis, and Philip and Alexander ...

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Eunapius in Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Εὐνάπιος). A Greek rhetorician, born at Sardis in A.D. 347. In 405 he wrote biographies of twenty-three older and contemporary philosophers and sophists. In spite of its bad style and its superficiality, this book is our chief authority for the history of the Neo-Platonism of that age. There is an edition by Boissonade (Amst. 1822). We have also s...

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Eurybiades in Wikipedia

Eurybiades (Greek: Εὐριβιάδης) was the Spartan commander in charge of the Greek navy during the Persian Wars. He was the son of Eurycleides, and was chosen as commander in 480 BC because the other Greek city-states, worried about the growing power of Athens, did not want to serve under an Athenian,[citation needed] despite the Athenians' superior ...

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