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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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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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Diogeniānus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Διογενειανός). A Greek grammarian of Heraclea. About the middle of the second century A.D. he made extracts, in five books, from the great collection of glosses compiled about a century before by Pamphilus. These extracts form the foundation of the lexicon of Hesychius (q.v.). A collection of proverbs made by him is preserved in an abridged form. ...

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Diophantus in Wikipedia

Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς. b. between 200 and 214 CE, d. between 284 and 298 CE), sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica. These texts deal with solving algebraic equations, many of which are now lost. In studying Arithmeti...

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Dionysius Chalcus in Wikipedia

Dionysius Chalcus (Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Χαλκοῦς) was an ancient Athenian poet and orator. According to Athenaeus, he was called Chalcus ("brazen") because he advised the Athenians to adopt a brass coinage (xv. p. 669). His speeches have not survived, but his poems are referred to and quoted by such authors as Plutarch (Nicias, 5), Aristotle (Rhetoric...

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Diocles of Magnesia in Wikipedia

Diocles of Magnesia (Greek: Διοκλῆς) was an ancient Greek writer from Magnesia, who probably lived in the 2nd or 1st century BC.[1] The claim that he is the Diocles to whom Meleager of Gadara dedicated his anthology is questionable.[2] He authored works entitled Ἐπιδρομὴ τῶν φιλοσόφων (Philosophers overview) and Περὶ βίων φιλοσόφων (On the lives of...

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Diogenes of Apollonia in Wikipedia

Diogenes of Apollonia (fl. 425 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, and was a native of the Milesian colony Apollonia in Thrace. He lived for some time in Athens. His doctrines are known chiefly from Diogenes Laertius and Simplicius. He believed air to be the one source of all being, and, as a primal force, it was intelligent. All other substances...

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Diomedes Grammaticus in Wikipedia

Diomedes Grammaticus was a Latin grammarian who probably lived in the late 4th century AD. He wrote a grammatical treatise, known either as De Oratione et Partibus Orationis et Vario Genere Metrorum libri III or Ars grammatica in three books, dedicated to a certain Athanasius. Since he is frequently quoted by Priscian (e.g. lib. ix. pp. 861, 870, l...

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Wikipedia

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Greek: Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀλικαρνᾱσσεύς, Dionysios son of Aléxandros, of Halikarnassós, c. 60 BC–after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. Life He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin ...

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