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Ephŏrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἔφορος). Of Cymae in Aeolis, a celebrated Greek historian, a contemporary of Philip and Alexander, flourished about B.C. 340. He wrote a universal history (Ἱστορίαι), in thirty books, the first that was attempted in Greece. It covers a period of 750 years, from the return of the Heraclidae to B.C. 341. Of this history Diodorus Siculus made an exte...

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Epicūrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐπίκουρος). A celebrated philosopher, born in the year B.C. 341, in the island of Samos, whither his father had gone from Athens, in the year B.C. 352, among 2000 colonists then sent out by the Athenians. Yet he was an Athenian by right, belonging to the deme Gargettus and to the tribe Aegeïs. His father Neocles is said to have been a school-maste...

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Diotimus the Stoic in Wikipedia

Diotimus (Greek: Διότιμος) was a Stoic philosopher, who lived c. 100 BC. He is said to have accused Epicurus of being depraved, and to have forged fifty letters, professing to have been written by Epicurus, to prove it.[1] According to Athenaeus, who is evidently alluding to the same story in a passage where Diotimus apparently should be substitut...

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Draco in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Δράκων). A very celebrated Athenian legislator, who flourished about B.C. 621. Suidas tells us that he brought forward his code of laws (θεσμοί) in this year, and that he was then an old man. Aristotle (Pol. ii.fin.) says that Draco adapted his laws to the existing constitution, and that they contained nothing particular beyond the severity of the...

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Diphilus in Wikipedia

Diphilus, of Sinope, was a poet of the new Attic comedy and contemporary of Menander (342-291 BC). Most of his plays were written and acted at Athens, but he led a wandering life, and died at Smyrna. He was on intimate terms with the famous courtesan Gnathaena (Athenaeus xiii. pp. 579, 583). He is said to have written 100 comedies, the titles of f...

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Epaminondas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐπαμεινώνδας). A Theban statesman and soldier, son of Polymnis, and in whose praise, for both talents and rectitude, there is a remarkable concurrence of ancient writers. Nepos observes that before Epaminondas was born and after his death Thebes was always in subjection to some other power; while he directed her councils she was at the head of Gre...

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Epicharmus of Kos in Wikipedia

Epicharmus (Ancient Greek: Ἐπίχαρμος) is considered to have lived within the hundred year period between c. 540 and c. 450 BC. He was a Greek dramatist and philosopher often credited with being one of the first comic writers, having originated the Doric or Sicilian comedic form[1]. Aristotle (Poetics 5 1449b5 [2]) writes that he and Phormis invente...

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Epigenes in Wikipedia

Epigenes may refer to: Epigenes of Athens Epigenes (c. 4th century BC) was an Athenian comic poet of the middle comedy. Pollux indeed[1] speaks of him as neôn tis kômikôn, but the terms "middle" and "new," as Clinton remarks,[2] are not always very carefully applied.[3] Epigenes himself, in a fragment of his play called Mnêmation[4] speaks of Pix...

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Duris of Samos in Wikipedia

Duris of Samos (Greek Δοῦρις); probably born around 350 BC; died after 281 BC) was a Greek historian and was at some period tyrant of Samos. Personal and political life Duris claimed to be a descendant of Alcibiades,[1] and was the brother of Lynceus of Samos. He had a son, Scaeus, who won the boys' boxing at the Olympian Games "while the Samians ...

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Ephialtes in Wikipedia

Ephialtes (Greek: Ἐφιάλτης, Ephialtēs) was an ancient Athenian politician and an early leader of the democratic movement there. In the late 460s BC, he oversaw reforms that diminished the power of the Areopagus, a traditional bastion of conservatism, and which are considered by many modern historians to mark the beginning of the "radical democracy"...

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