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Dion in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

An inhabitant of Syracuse, who became a disciple of Plato, invited to the court of Syracuse by the elder Dionysius. He was nearly connected with Dionysius by having married his daughter, and because his sister was one of his wives; and he was also much esteemed by him, so as to be employed on several embassies. At the accession of the younger Diony...

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Dionysius Periegetes in Wikipedia

Dionysius Periegetes (literally, Dionysius of The Voyager or Traveller) was the author of a description of the habitable world in Greek hexameter verse written in a terse and elegant style. His lifedates, and indeed his origins, are not known, but he is believed to have been from Alexandria and to have flourished around the time of Hadrian, though ...

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Dinarchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Δείναρχος). One of the ten Greek orators, for the explanation of whose orations Harpocration compiled his lexicon. (See Canon Alexandrinus.) He was a Corinthian by birth, but settled at Athens and became intimate with Theophrastus and Demetrius Phalereus. Dionysius of Halicarnassus fixes his birth at B.C. 361. The time of his highest reputation wa...

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Diogenes of Sinope in Wikipedia

Diogenes of Sinope (Greek: Διογένης ὁ Σινωπεύς Diogenes ho Sinopeus), was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes the Cynic, he was born in Sinope (modern-day Sinop, Turkey) in 412 or 404 BCE and died at Corinth in 323 BCE.[1] Diogenes was one of the few men to ever publicly mock Alexander the Great ...

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Dinon in Wikipedia

Dinon or Deinon (Greek Δίνων or Δείνων) of Colophon (c. 360 BC – 340 BC) was a Greek historian and chronicler, the author of a history of Persia, the Persica (Greek Περσικα), many fragments of which survive. The Suda mistakenly attributes this work to Dio Cassius. He is the father of Cleitarchus. He takes the history of the near East from where Ct...

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Diodotus the Stoic in Wikipedia

Diodotus (Greek: Διόδοτος; fl. 1st century BC) was a Stoic philosopher, and was a friend of Cicero. He lived for most of his life in Rome in Cicero's house, where he instructed Cicero in Stoic philosophy and especially Logic.[1] Although Cicero never fully accepted Stoic philosophy, he always spoke of Diodotus with fondness, and ranked him equal t...

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Dionysius the Areopagite in Wikipedia

Dionysius the Areopagite (Greek Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεοπαγίτης) was a judge of the Areopagus who, as related in the Acts of the Apostles, (Acts 17:34), was converted to Christianity by the preaching of the Apostle Paul. According to Dionysius of Corinth, quoted by Eusebius, this Dionysius then became the second Bishop of Athens.[1] Historic confusions In...

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Dionysius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

The author of a Greek poem in 1186 hexameters, entitled Τῆς Γῆς Οἰκουμένης Περιήγησις, "A Description of the Habitable World." It is not clearly ascertained where he was born. The probability is, however, that he was a native of Charax in Susiana. It is uncertain, also, when he flourished; he belonged, however, according to the general opinion, to ...

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Diodotus I in Wikipedia

Diodotus I Soter (Greek: Διόδοτος Α' ὁ Σωτήρ) (c. 285 BC - c. 239 BC), was Seleucid satrap of Bactria, rebelled against Seleucid rule soon after the death of Antiochus II in c. 255 or 246 BC, and wrested independence for his territory.[1] He died in 239 BC. This event is recorded by Trogus, Prol. 41; Justin xli. 4, 5, where he is called Theodotus;...

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Diogenes of Tarsus in Wikipedia

Diogenes of Tarsus (2nd century BCE[1]) was an Epicurean philosopher, who is described by Strabo[2] as a person clever in composing improvised tragedies. He was the author of several works, which, however, are lost. Among them are: * Select lectures (Greek: Ἐπίλεκτοι σχολαί), which was probably a collection of essays and dissertations.[3] * Epit...

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