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Cynaegīrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κυναίγειρος). An Athenian, celebrated for his courage. He was brother to the poet Aeschylus. After the battle of Marathon (B.C. 490) he pursued the flying Persians to their ships, and seized one of their vessels with his right hand, which was immediately severed by the enemy. Upon this he seized the vessel with his left hand, and when he had lost ...

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Damascius in Wikipedia

Damascius (Δαμάσκιος, born in Damascus ca. AD 458, died after AD 538), known as "the last of the Neoplatonists," was the last scholarch of the School of Athens. He was one of the pagan philosophers persecuted by Justinian in the early 6th century, and was forced for a time to seek refuge in the Persian court, before being allowed back into the empi...

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Demetrius I of Bactria in Wikipedia

Demetrius I (Greek: ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ) was a Buddhist Greco-Bactrian king (reigned circa 200-180 BC). He was the son of Euthydemus and succeeded him around 200 BC, after which he conquered extensive areas in what now is eastern Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan[1] thus creating an Indo-Greek kingdom far from Hellenistic Greece. He was never defeated in battle...

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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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Dares in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Trojan priest, mentioned by Homer ( Il. v. 9). It is absurdly pretended, by some of the ancient writers, that he wrote an Iliad, or history of the Trojan War, in prose; and Aelian (Var. Hist. xi. 2) assures us that it still existed in his day, without telling us, however, whether he himself had read it or not. There can, of course, be no doubt th...

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Damascĭus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Δαμάσκιος). A philosopher, a native of Damascus. He commenced his studies under Ammonius at Alexandria, and completed them at Athens under Marinus, Isidorus, and Zenodotus. According to some, he was the successor of Isidorus. It is certain, however, that he was the last professor of Neo-Platonism at Athens. He appears to have been a man of excelle...

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Cynisca in Wikipedia

Cynisca (Greek: Κυνίσκα) (born c.440 BC) was a Greek princess of Sparta. She became the first woman in history to win at the ancient Olympic Games. Early life Cynisca was born in 440 BC in the ancient Greek city of Sparta and was the daughter of the Eurypontid king of Sparta, Archidamus II, and Eupoleia. She was also the sister of the later king o...

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Dinocrates in Wikipedia

Dinocrates of Rhodes (also Deinocrates, Dimocrates, Cheirocrates and Stasicrates [1] ; Greek: Δεινοκράτης ο Ρόδιος, fl. last quarter of the 4th century BC) was a Greek architect and technical adviser for Alexander the Great. He is known for his plan for the city of Alexandria, the monumental funeral pyre for Hephaestion and the reconstruction of th...

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Demetrius I Soter in Wikipedia

Demetrius I (Greek: Δημήτριος Α`, born 185 B.C., reign 161-150 B.C.), surnamed Soter (Greek: Σωτήρ - "Savior"), was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. Demetrius was sent to Rome as a hostage during the reign of his father Seleucus IV Philopator and his mother Laodice IV [1]. When his father was murdered by his finance minister Heliodorus ...

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Procrustes in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology Procrustes (Προκρούστης) or "the stretcher [who hammers out the metal]", also known as Prokoptas or Damastes (Δαμαστής) "subduer", was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica who physically attacked people, stretching them, or cutting off their legs so as to make them fit an iron bed's size. In general, when something is Procrustean...

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