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Dositheus in Wikipedia

Dositheos or Dositheus may refer to: * Dositheos (Samaritan), Gnostic * Dositheus Magister, Roman grammarian and jurist * Dositheus of Pelusium (ca 3rd century BC), Greek mathematician, probably Hebrew-born, active in Alexandria, best known for his correspondence with Archimedes * Dositheus of Gaza (died c. 530), Egyptian monk * Dositheos (pa...

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Empedocles in Wikipedia

Empedocles (Ancient Greek: Ἐμπεδοκλῆς; ca. 490–430 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for being the originator of the cosmogenic theory of the four Classical elements. He also proposed powers called Love and Strife which would act as forces to bring abou...

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Ephippus in Wikipedia

Ephippus of Olynthus Ephippus (Ephippos) of Olynthus was an Ancient Greek historian of Alexander the Great. It is commonly believed, though no reason is assigned, that Ephippus lived about or shortly after the time of Alexander. There is however a passage in Arrian[1] which would determine the age of Ephippus very accurately, if it could be prove...

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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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Epictētus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐπίκτητος). An eminent Stoic philosopher, born in a servile condition at Hierapolis in Phrygia, about A.D. 50. The names of his parents are unknown; neither do we know how he came to be brought to Rome. But in that city he was for some time a slave to Epaphroditus, a freedman of Nero, who had been one of his body-guard. An anecdote related by Orig...

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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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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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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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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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