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Eumĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Of Cardia, served as private secretary to Philip and Alexander; and on the death of the latter (B.C. 323) obtained the government of Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, and Pontus. Eumenes allied himself with Perdiccas, and carried on war for him in Asia Minor against Antipater and Craterus. On the death of Perdiccas in Egypt, Antigonus employed the whole for...

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Euphantus in Wikipedia

Euphantus (Greek: Εὔφαντος; fl. c. 320 BCE[1]) of Olynthus was a philosopher of the Megarian school as well as an historian and tragic poet. He was the disciple of Eubulides of Miletus, and the instructor of Antigonus I Monophthalmus king of Macedonia. He wrote many tragedies, which were well received at the games. He also wrote a very highly estee...

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Eupolis in Wikipedia

Eupolis (ca. 446 BC-411 BC) was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, who flourished during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Biography Nothing whatever is known of his personal history. With regard to his death, he is said to have been thrown into the sea by Alcibiades, whom he had attacked in one of his plays, but it is more likely that he died f...

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Eurycrates in Wikipedia

Eurycrates or Eurykrates (Greek: Εὐρυκράτης) was a king of the Greek city state of Sparta, one of the Agiad (also spelled Agiade) kings, who was preceded by his father Polydorus and followed by his son Anaxander. He ruled from 665 to 640 BC....

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Eumenius in Wikipedia

Eumenius (born c. 260 at the latest, more probably between 230 and 240), was one of the Roman panegyrists and author of a speech transmitted in the collection of the Panegyrici Latini (Pan. Lat. IX[1]). Life Eumenius was born at Augustodunum (Autun) in Gallia Lugdunensis. He was of Greek descent; his grandfather, who had migrated from Athens to Ro...

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Eurycratides in Wikipedia

Eurycratides (Greek: Ευρυκρατίδης, i.e. "wide ruler") was a king of Sparta from the Agiad dynasty whose reign began in around 615 BC. He was the thirteenth king of his line having succeeded his father Anaxander. His name is derived from the Greek: "Ευρύ" - "eury", meaning "wide". He reigned during a devastating period of war with Tegea[1] Eurycrati...

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Euphemus in Wikipedia

There are two figures in Greek mythology known as Euphemus (Greek: Εὔφημος) "reputable". One was the son of Poseidon, granted by his father the power to walk on water. Euphemus's mother is variously named: Europe, daughter of the giant Tityos; Oris, daughter of Orion; or Macionice, daughter of Eurotas. His residence is given as Panopeus in Phocis,...

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Eupŏlis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὔπολις). A writer of the Old Comedy, who was born at Athens about the year B.C. 446. He was therefore a contemporary of Aristophanes, who, in all probability, was born a year or two after. Eupolis is supposed to have exhibited plays for the first time in B.C. 429. In B.C. 425 he was third with his Νουμηνίαι, when Cratinus was second and Aristopha...

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Erinna in Wikipedia

Erinna (Greek: Ἤριννα) was a Greek poet, a contemporary and friend of Sappho, a native of Rhodes or the adjacent island of Telos or even possibly Tenos, who flourished about 600 BC (according to Eusebius, she was well known in 352 BC[1]). Her best-known poem was the Distaff (Greek Ἠλᾰκάτη), written in a mixture of Aeolic and Doric Greek and consist...

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Epimenides in Wikipedia

Epimenides of Knossos (Crete) (Greek: Ἐπιμενίδης) was a semi-mythical 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet. While tending his father's sheep, he is said to have fallen asleep for fifty-seven years in a Cretan cave sacred to Zeus, after which he reportedly awoke with the gift of prophecy (Diogenes Laertius i. 109–115). Plutarch writes that...

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