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Dorotheus of Sidon in Wikipedia

Dorotheus of Sidon (c. 75 CE) was a first-century Hellenistic astrologer who wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology known in Greek as the Pentateuch (five books), or in Latin as the Carmen Astrologicum (Song of Astrology). The Pentateuch, which was a textbook on Hellenistic astrology, has come down to us mainly from an Arabic translation dat...

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Echecrates in Wikipedia

Echecrates (pronounced eh-CHEHK-rah-tees) was, according to Plato, a Pythagorean philosopher from the ancient Greek town of Phlius.[1] He appears in Plato's Phaedo dialogue as an aid to the plot. He meets Phaedo, the dialogue's namesake, some time after the execution of Socrates, and asks Phaedo to tell him the story of the famed philosopher's las...

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Ephialtes of Trachis in Wikipedia

Ephialtes of Trachis (Greek: Ἐφιάλτης, Ephialtēs; although Herodotus spelled it as Ἐπιάλτης, Epialtes) was the son of Eurydemus of Malis.[1] He showed the Persian forces a path around the allied Greek position at the pass of Thermopylae, which helped them win the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Trail The allied Greek land forces, which Herodotus ...

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Epicrătes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Of Ambracia; an Athenian writer of the Middle Comedy (Aelian, N. A. xii. 10)....

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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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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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Epictetus in Wikipedia

Epictetus (Greek: Ἐπίκτητος; AD 55–AD 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until banishment when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece where he lived the rest of his life. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discours...

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Dios in Wikipedia

Dios may refer to: * Dios, Spanish for God * Dios (Argentine band), an Argentine band * Dios, a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel series * dios (malos), a rock band from Hawthorne, California, formerly known as "dios" o dios, an album release in 2004 by dios (Malos)...

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