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Cynaegirus in Wikipedia

Cynegeirus or Cynaegeirus (Greek: Κυνέγειρος or Κυναίγειρος, ?-490 B.C.) was an ancient Greek hero of Athens and brother of the playwright Aeschylus. He was the son of Euphorion from Eleusis and member of the Eupatridae, the ancient nobility of Attica.[1] In 490 B.C. Cynegeirus and his brother Aeschylus, fought to defend Athens against Darius's in...

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Cypsĕlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κύψελος). A tyrant of Corinth, B.C. 655-625, so named because when a child he was concealed from the Bacchiadae (the Doric nobility of Corinth) by his mother in a chest (κυψέλη). He was succeeded in the tyranny by his son Periander....

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Dares Phrygius in Wikipedia

Dares Phrygius (Δάρης), according to Homer,[1] was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. He was supposed to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy, and to have lived before Homer.[2] A work in Latin, purporting to be a translation of this, and entitled Daretis Phrygii de excidio Trojae historia, was much read in the Middle Ages, and...

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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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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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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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Demetrius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A son of Antigonus and Stratonicé, surnamed Poliorcetes (Πολιορκητής), "besieger of cities," from his talents as an engineer and his peculiar skill in conducting sieges, especially by the aid of machines and engines either invented or improved by himself. At the age of twenty-two he was sent by his father against Ptolemy (B.C. 312), who had invaded...

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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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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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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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