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Euenus in Wikipedia

Euenus (or Evenus) of Paros, (Greek: Εὔηνος), was a 5th century BC philosopher and poet who was roughly contemporary with Socrates. Several fragments of his poetry exist in the Palatine Anthology and Euenus is mentioned several times in Plato's Phaedo, Phaedrus (dialogue), and Apology of Socrates. He was apparently, although obscure, well respected...

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Epigĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Of Sicyon, said to have been the oldest writer of tragedy, and to have preceded even Thespis....

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Erasistrătus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐρασίστρατος). A physician of Iulis, in the island of Ceos, and grandson of Aristotle by a daughter of this philosopher. After having frequented the schools of Chrysippus, Metrodorus, and Theophrastus, he passed some time at the court of Seleucus Nicator, where he gained great reputation by discovering the secret malady which preyed upon the young...

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Eubūlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A formidable opponent of Demosthenes at Athens....

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Eudamidas I in Wikipedia

Eudamidas I (Greek: Εὐδαμίδας, 330 – c. 300) was a Spartan king of the Eurypontid line [1]. He married the wealthy Archidamia, and she had two children, Archidamus IV and Agesistrata. There is evidence that Eudamidas I owned the half of his wife wealth in land [2][3]. During his reign Sparta made peace [4]. Pausanias devotes more space to Agis II (...

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Eugammon of Cyrene in Wikipedia

Eugammon of Cyrene was an early Greek poet to whom the epic Telegony was ascribed. According to Clement of Alexandria, he stole the poem from the legendary early poet Musaeus; meaning, possibly, that a version of a long-existing traditional epic was written down by Eugammon. He is said to have flourished 567/6 BC.[1][2]...

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Ephialtes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

An Athenian statesman, a friend and partisan of Pericles, whom he assisted in carrying his political measures. He was instrumental in abridging the powers of the Areopagus-a measure assailed by Aeschylus in his Eumenides. Ephialtes thus made himself so obnoxious to the aristocratic party that his enemies had him assassinated, probably in the year B...

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Diphĭlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Δίφιλος). A poet of the new Attic comedy, a native of Sinopé, and contemporary of Menander. He is supposed to have written some one hundred pieces, of which we have the titles and fragments of about fifty. The Casina and Rudens of Plautus are modelled on two plays of Diphilus; and Terence has adopted some scenes from one of them (the Συναποθνῄσκον...

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Duris in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Δοῦρις). A Samian writer of history who flourished about B.C. 350. He was a descendant of Alcibiades, and at one time was tyrant of Samos. Only fragments now remain of his historical writings, which were as follows: 1. A history of Greece (Ἡ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν Ἱστορία), from B.C. 370 to B.C. 281; 2. Περὶ Ἀγαθοκλέα Ἱστορίαι; 3. Σαμίων Ὧροι; 4. Περὶ ...

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Epicrates of Ambracia in Wikipedia

Epicrates of Ambracia (Greek: Επικράτης Αμβρακιώτης), was an Ambraciote who lived in Athens, a comic poet of the Middle Comedy, according to the testimony of Athenaeus (x. p. 422, f.), confirmed by extant fragments of his plays, in which he ridicules Plato and his disciples, Speusippus and Menedemus, and in which he refers to the courtesan Lais of ...

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