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Eugamon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐγάμων) or Eugammon. One of the Cyclic poets, a native of Cyrené, who flourished about B.C. 568. He wrote a continuation of the Odyssey, in two books, with the title Telegonia (Τηλεγονία), and giving an account of the events from the fight with the suitors to the death of Odysseus. The substance of the poem is preserved in the Chrestomathia of Pr...

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Epilycus in Wikipedia

Epilycus (Epilukos) was an Athenian comic poet of the old comedy. He is mentioned by an ancient grammarian in connection with Aristophanes and Philyllius. Of his play Kôraliskos, a few fragments are preserved.[1] An epic poet of the same name, a brother of the comic poet Crates, is mentioned by Saidas.[2]...

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Eratosthĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐρατοσθένης). A distinguished contemporary of Archimedes, born at Cyrené, B.C. 276. He possessed a variety of talents seldom united in the same individual. His mathematical, astronomical, and geographical labours are those which have rescued his name from oblivion, though he was, besides, famous for his athletic prowess. The Alexandrian school of ...

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Eucleides in Wikipedia

Eucleides was archon of Athens at the end of 5th century BC. During the year that Eucleides spent in office (403-402 BC), the murderous oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants was driven out of Athens and the Athenian democracy re-established. As part of the new regime, Athenians accepted a spelling reform, adopting the Ionian alphabet, which included eta...

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Eudēmus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὔδημος). A native of Rhodes and noted as a peripatetic philosopher and disciple of Aristotle, many of whose works he edited. One of these bears the name of Eudemus (Ἠθικὰ Εὐδήμεια), in seven books, probably a recension of all Aristotle's ethical lectures arranged by Eudemus. See Gell. xiii. 5, and the article Aristoteles....

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Euhemerus in Wikipedia

Euhemerus (Ancient Greek: Εὐήμερος [Euhēmeros], 'happy; prosperous') (late fourth century B.C.) was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander, the king of Macedon. Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messina in Sicily as the most probable location, while others champion Chios, or Tegea. Euhemerism He is chiefly known for a rationalizing m...

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Diophantus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Διόφαντος). A mathematician of Alexandria, who, according to the most received opinion, was contemporary with the emperor Julian. This opinion is founded upon a passage of Abulfaraj, an Arabian author of the thirteenth century. He names, among the contemporaries of the emperor Julian , Diophantes (for Diophantus) as the author of a celebrated work...

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Dorotheus (jurist) in Wikipedia

Dorotheus (Greek: Δωρόθεος) was a professor of jurisprudence in the law school of Berytus in Syria, and one of the three commissioners appointed by the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I to draw up a book of Institutes, after the model of the Institutes of Gaius, which should serve as an introduction to the Digest (or Pandects) already completed. Hi...

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Ecphantus the Pythagorean in Wikipedia

Ecphantus or Ecphantos (Ancient Greek: Ἔκφαντος) is a shadowy Greek pre-Socratic philosopher. He may not have actually existed.[1] He is identified as a Pythagorean of the fourth century BCE, and as a supporter of the heliocentric theory. Described as from Syracuse, this may or may not be the same figure as the attested Ecphantus of Croton....

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Ephialtes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Malian, who in B.C. 480, when Leonidas was defending the pass of Thermopylae, guided a body of Persians over the mountain path, and thus enabled them to fall on the rear of the Greeks....

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