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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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Epicharmus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐπίχαρμος). The first Greek comic writer of whom we have any definite account. He was a Syracusan, either by birth or emigration (Theocr. Epig. 17). Some writers make him a native of the island of Cos, but all agree that he passed his life at Syracuse. It was about B.C. 500, thirty-five years after Thespis began to exhibit, eleven years after the ...

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Diocles in Wikipedia

Diocles may refer to: * Diocles, a person in Greek mythology * Roman emperor Diocletian, formerly named Diocles * Diocles of Carystus, Greek physician who lived 4th century BC * Diocles (mathematician), second century BC and the beginning of the first century BC * Diocles of Messenia, winner of the stadion race of the 7th Olympic Games in 752...

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Diodotus II in Wikipedia

Diodotus II (c. 252 BC - c. 223 BC) was a Greco-Bactrian king from c. 239 BC, son of Diodotus I. He is known for concluding a peace treaty with the Parthian king Arsaces, in order to forestall the Seleucid reconquest of both Parthia and Bactria: "Soon after, relieved by the death of Diodotus I, Arsaces made peace and concluded an alliance with hi...

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Dionysius of Syracuse in Wikipedia

The name Dionysius of Syracuse can refer to: * Dionysius I of Syracuse, the tyrant of the ancient Greek city of Syracuse from 405 BC to 367 BC. He was the father of Dionysius II. * Dionysius II of Syracuse, the tyrant of the ancient city of Syracuse from 367 BC to 357 BC and again from 346 BC to 344 BC. He was the son of Dionysius I....

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Diogenianus in Wikipedia

Diogenianus was a Greek grammarian from Heraclea in Pontus (or in Caria) who flourished during the reign of Hadrian. He was the author of an alphabetical lexicon, chiefly of poetical words, abridged from the great lexicon of Pamphilus of Alexandria (AD 50) and other similar works. It was also known by the title IIeptepyO7r~v17Tes (for the use of "i...

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Dionysius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Christian writer, called Areopagīta, from his having been a member of the court of Areopagus at Athens. He was converted to Christianity by St. Paul's preaching (Acts, xvii. 34). He is reported to have been the first bishop of Athens, being appointed to that office by the apostle Paul, and to have suffered martyrdom under Domitian. His fundamenta...

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Diocles of Carystus in Wikipedia

Diocles of Carystus (Greek: Διοκλῆς ὁ Καρύστιος; lived 4th century BC), a very celebrated Greek physician, was born at Carystus in Euboea, lived not long after the time of Hippocrates, to whom Pliny says he was next in age and fame.[1] Not much is known of his life, other that he lived and worked in Athens, where he wrote what may be the first medi...

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Diodotus Tryphon in Wikipedia

Diodotus Tryphon (Greek: Διόδοτος Τρύφων) was king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom. As a general of the army, he promoted the claims of Antiochus VI Dionysus, the infant son of Alexander Balas, in Antioch after Alexander's death, but then in 142 deposed the child and himself seized power in Coele-Syria where Demetrius II Nicator was unpopular f...

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