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Demaratus in Wikipedia

Demaratus (Greek: Δημάρατος) was a king of Sparta from 515 until 491 BC, of the Eurypontid line, successor to his father Ariston. As king, he is known chiefly for his opposition to the other, co-ruling Spartan king, Cleomenes I. When Cleomenes attempted to make Isagoras tyrant in Athens, Demaratus tried unsuccessfully to frustrate his plans. In 50...

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Demetrius II Aetolicus in Wikipedia

Demetrius II Aetolicus (Greek: Δημήτριος Αιτωλικός) son of Antigonus Gonatas, reigned as king of Macedonia from the winter of 239 to 229 BC[1]. He belonged to the Antigonid dynasty and was born in 275 BC[2]. There is a possibility[3] that his father had already elevated to him to position of power equal to his own before his death. If this had occu...

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Crateuas of Macedon in Wikipedia

Crateuas (Greek: Κρατεύας), also called Craterus, was King of Macedon for four days in 399 BC. He was lover of Archelaus I of Macedon, whom he killed to become a king himself.[1] According to another version, Craterus killed the king, because Archelaus had promised to give him one of his daughters in marriage, but later gave her to someone else.[2]...

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Conon in Wikipedia

Conon (Greek: Κόνων) (bef. 444 BC - aft. 394 BC) was an Athenian general at the end of the Peloponnesian War, in charge during the decisive loss of the navy at the Battle of Aegospotami. He had been sent out following the recall of Alcibiades in 406 BC, and pursued the Peloponnesian fleet under Lysander to the Hellespont. There it took a strong def...

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Crantor in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κράντωρ). A philosopher of Soli, among the pupils of Xenocrates, B.C. 300. He was the first who wrote commentaries on the works of Plato. Crantor was highly celebrated for the purity of his moral doctrine, as may be inferred from the praises bestowed by the ancients upon him. From one of his works, Περὶ Πένθους, Cicero drew largely in writing the ...

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Kresilas in Wikipedia

Kresilas (Κρησίλας) was a Greek sculptor from Kydonia. He lived in the 5th century BC. He worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war, as a follower of the idealistic portraiture of Myron. Pericles statue In Athens he created, for example, a bronze statue of Pericles (440–430 BC) with the Corinthian helmet upon the head as a sign of his ...

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Croesus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κροῖσος). The son of Alyattes, king of Lydia, and born about B.C. 590. He was the fifth and last of the Mermnadae, a family which began to reign with Gyges, who dethroned Candaules (q.v.). According to the account of Herodotus, Croesus was the son of Alyattes by a Carian mother, and had a half-brother, named Pantaleon, the offspring of an Ionian w...

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Conon of Samos in Wikipedia

Conon of Samos (ca. 280 BC - ca. 220 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician. He is primarily remembered for naming the constellation Coma Berenices. Life and work Conon was born on Samos, Ionia, and possibly died in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt, where he was court astronomer to Ptolemy III Euergetes. He named the constellation Coma Berenices ...

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Critias in Wikipedia

Critias (Greek Κριτίας Kritias, 460-403 BC), born in Athens, son of Callaeschrus, was an uncle of Plato, and a leading member of the Thirty Tyrants, and one of the most violent. He was an associate of Socrates, a fact that did not endear Socrates to the Athenian public. He was noted in his day for his tragedies, elegies and prose works. Some, like ...

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Ctesias in Wikipedia

Ctesias of Cnidus (Greek Κτησίας) was a Greek physician and historian from Cnidus in Caria. Ctesias, who lived in the 5th century BC, was physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger. Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of...

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