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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]...

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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...

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Hecatomnos in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

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

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Eumenes I in Wikipedia

Eumenes I of Pergamon was dynast (ruler) of the city of Pergamon in Asia Minor from 263 BC until his death in 241 BC[1]. He was the son of Eumenes, the brother of Philetaerus, the founder of the Attalid dynasty, and Satyra, daughter of Poseidonius. As he had no children, Philetaerus adopted Eumenes to become his heir. Although nominally under Sele...

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Eumolpidae in Wikipedia

The Eumolpidae (Greek: Ευμολπιδαι) were one of the sacred Eleusinian families of priests that ran the Eleusinian Mysteries during the Hellenic era. They popularized the cult and allowed many more to be initiated into the great secrets of Demeter and Persephone. The Eumolpidae were descendants of Eumolpus, one of the first priests of Demeter at Eleu...

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Euripĭdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐριπίδης). (1) A celebrated Athenian tragic poet, son of Mnesarchus and Clito. He was born B.C. 480, in Salamis, on the very day of the Grecian victory near that island. His mother, Clito, had been sent over to Salamis, with the other Athenian women, when Attica was given up to the invading army of Xerxes; and the name of the poet, which is forme...

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Eurylŏchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐρύλοχος). A companion of Odysseus, and the only one that escaped from the house of Circé when his friends were metamorphosed into swine (Homer Od. x. 203Homer Od., xi. 23, etc.)....

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Eumĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

I., king of Pergamum, who reigned B.C. 263-241, and was the successor of his uncle Philetaerus....

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Euphorion in Wikipedia

Euphorion may refer to: Euphorion of Chalcis Euphorion, Greek poet and grammarian, born at Chalcis in Euboea about 275 BC. Euphorion spent much of his life in Athens, where he amassed great wealth. After studying philosophy with Lacydes and Prytanis, he became the student and eromenos of the poet Archeboulus.[1] About 221 he was invited by Antioc...

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Eumolpĭdae in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐμολπίδαι). The most distinguished and venerable among the priestly families in Attica, believed to be the descendants of the Thracian bard Eumolpus, the introducer of the Eleusinian mysteries into Attica (Diod. Sic.i. 29; Apollod. iii. 15.4.) The ἱεροφάντης was always a member of the family of the Eumolpidae, as Eumolpus himself was believed to ...

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