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Didymus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Δίδυμος). A famous grammarian, the son of a seller of fish at Alexandria, who was born in the consulship of Antonius and Cicero, B.C. 63, and flourished in the reign of Augustus. Macrobius calls him the greatest grammarian of his own or any other time (Saturn. v. 18, 9). According to Athenaeus (iv. 139), he published 3500 volumes, and had written ...

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Demetrius of Alopece in Wikipedia

Demetrius of Alopece,a deme of Athens, was a Greek sculptor of the early part of the 4th century BC, who is said by ancient critics to have been notable for the life-like realism of his statues. His portrait of Pellichus, a Corinthian general, with fat paunch and bald head, wearing a cloak which leaves him half exposed, with some of the hairs of h...

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Democedes in Wikipedia

Democedes of Croton, described in The Histories of Herodotus as "the most skillful physician of his time". Democedes's Background Democedes was a Greek physician and a part of the court of Darius I. He was born in Croton, part of present-day Italy. His father was Calliphon, a priest as part of Asclepius. His first part as physician seems to be in ...

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Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

An Athenian general, son of Alcisthenes, who obtained considerable reputation during a part of the Peloponnesian War. When the Spartan monarch Agis made an inroad into Attica, Demosthenes, on his part, harassed the coasts of the Peloponnesus, and seized upon and fortified the Messenian Pylos. This led to the affair of Sphacteria (q.v.), in which he...

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Diagŏras in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. A native of the island of Melos and a follower of Democritus. Having been sold as a captive in his youth, he was redeemed by Democritus and trained up in the study of philosophy. He attached himself also to lyric poetry and was much distinguished for his success. His name, however, has been transmitted to posterity as that of an avowed advocate ...

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Didymus the Blind in Wikipedia

Didymus the Blind (c. 313 – 398) was an Coptic Church theologian of Alexandria whose famous Catechetical School, he led for about half a century. He became blind at a very young age, and therefore ignorant of the rudiments of learning. Yet, he displayed such a miracle of intelligence as to learn perfectly dialectics and even geometry, sciences whic...

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Cynisca in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κυνίσκα). A daughter of Archidamus, king of Sparta, who was the first woman that ever turned her attention to the training of steeds, and the first that obtained a prize at the Olympic Games (Pausan. iii. 8)....

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Damastes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Δαμάστης) of Sigeum. A Greek historian, and a contemporary of Herodotus and Hellanicus of Lesbos. His works are lost....

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Demādes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Δημάδης). An Athenian orator, who belonged to the Macedonian party, and was a bitter enemy of Demosthenes. He was put to death by Antipater in B.C. 318. Demades was a man without principle, but a vigorous and brilliant orator, always speaking extemporaneously, and with such freshness and force as to rival Demosthenes himself. A long fragment of an...

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Ctesibĭus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κτησίβιος). A native of Ascra and contemporary of Archimedes, who flourished during the reigns of Ptolemy II. and Ptolemy III., or between B.C. 260 and 240. He was the son of a barber, and for some time exercised at Alexandria the calling of his parent. His mechanical genius, however, soon caused him to emerge from obscurity, and he became known a...

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