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Epimenides in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐπιμενίδης). A Cretan, contemporary with Solon, and born perhaps in B.C. 659, at Phaestus, in the island of Crete, according to some accounts, or at Cnosus according to others. Many marvellous tales are related of him. It is said that, going by his father's order in search of a sheep, he laid himself down in a cave, where he fell asleep and slept ...

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Erinna in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A poetess, and the friend of Sappho. She flourished about the year B.C. 610. All that is known of her is contained in the following words of Eustathius ( ad Il. ii. p. 327): "Erinna was born in Lesbos, or in Rhodes, or in Teos, or in Telos, the little island near Cnidus. She was a poetess, and wrote a poem called ‘the Distaff’ (Ἠλακάτη） in the Aeol...

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Euclīdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A celebrated mathematician of Alexandria, considered by some to have been a native of that city, though the more received opinion makes the place of his birth to have been unknown. He flourished B.C. 280, in the reign of Ptolemy Lagus, and was professor of mathematics in the capital of Egypt. His scholars were numerous, and among them was Ptolemy h...

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Eudoxus of Cnidus in Wikipedia

Eudoxus of Cnidus (410 or 408 BC – 355 or 347 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem on astronomy. Theodosius of Bithynia's Sphaerics may be based on a work of Eudoxus. Life His name "Eudoxus" means "go...

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Pedanius Dioscorides in Wikipedia

Pedanius Dioscorides (circa 40-90 AD) is the author of a 5-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances, i.e. a pharmacopeia, that was widely read for well more than a thousand years, and is of great historical value today. A native of Anazarbus, Cilicia, Asia Minor, Dioscorides was "a Greek physician, pharmacologist ...

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Dositheus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Δωσίθεος). A grammarian who flourished towards the end of the fourth century A.D. He wrote a Latin grammar for Greek boys, with a literal Greek translation, which was not fully completed. With this was bound up (whether by Dositheus himself is uncertain) a miscellany of very various contents by another author. This comprises 1. anecdotes of the e...

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Dioscorĭdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Διοσκορίδης). A Greek physician and man of science. He flourished about the middle of the first century A.D., and was the author of a work De Materia Medica (Περὶ Ὕλης Ἰατρικῆς) in five books. For nearly 1700 years this book was the chief authority for students of botany and the science of healing. Two short essays on specifics against vegetable a...

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Empedŏcles in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐμπεδοκλῆς). A native of Agrigentum in Sicily, who flourished about B.C. 450. He was distinguished not only as a philosopher, but also for his knowledge of natural history and medicine, and as a poet and statesman. After the death of his father Meto, who was a wealthy citizen of Agrigentum, he acquired great weight among his fellow-citizens by esp...

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Epicurus in Wikipedia

Epicurus (Greek: Ἐπίκουρος, Epikouros, "ally, comrade"; Samos, 341 BCE – Athens, 270 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and comment...

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Ephorus in Wikipedia

Ephorus or Ephoros (Ancient Greek: Ἔφορος, c. 400–330 BC), of Cyme in Aeolia, in Asia Minor, was an ancient Greek historian. Information on his biography is limited; he was the father of Demophilus, who followed in his footsteps as a historian, and to Plutarch's claim that Ephorus declined Alexander the Great's offer to join him on his Persian camp...

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