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Cleitus in Wikipedia

Cleitus, is the English form of the personal name Kleitos (Greek Κλείτος, which may in turn derive from Greek kleos glory). It has been adopted as an English personal name in modern times mainly in the U.S., and usually with a modern spelling Claitus. Classical scholarship uses the traditional spelling. It may refer to: * Cleitus the Black (c. 37...

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Cleomēdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κλεομήδης). A Greek writer, supposed to have been the author of the work which has reached us entitled Κυκλικῆς Θεωρίας Μετεώρων Βίβλια δύο, or Circular Theory of the Stars. He flourished in the second century A.D. Ed. by Schmidt (Leipzig, 1832)....

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Cleon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κλέων). An Athenian, the son of a tanner, and said himself to have exercised that trade. Of extraordinary impudence and little courage, slow in the field, but forward and noisy in the assembly, corrupt, but boastful of integrity, and supported by a coarse but ready eloquence, he gained such consideration by flattering the lower orders that he beca...

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Cleophon in Wikipedia

Cleophon (politician) Cleophon (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn; ?-404 BC) was an Athenian politician and demagogue who was of great influence during the Peloponnesian War. He was a staunch democrat, and vehement opponent of the oligarchs; his sparring with Critias rated a mention in Aristotle's Rhetoric. On three separate occasions, he inspired the citi...

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Clement of Alexandria in Wikipedia

Titus Flavius Clemens (c.150 - c. 215), known as Clement of Alexandria (to distinguish him from Clement of Rome), was a Christian theologian and the head of the noted Catechetical School of Alexandria. Clement is best remembered as the teacher of Origen. He united Greek philosophical traditions with Christian doctrine and valued gnosis that with co...

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Cleonides in Wikipedia

CLEONIDES The Greek musical treatise attributed to Euclid, is in some MSS. attributed to Cleonides. [Eucleides] His age and history are wholly unknown [1] According to Thomas J. Mathiesen[2] the clearest account of the technical aspects of Aristoxenos musical theory are to be found in a manuscript Harmonica Introductio often attributed to Cleonid...

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Cleopatra Thea in Wikipedia

Cleopatra Thea (Greek : Κλεοπάτρα Θεά, which means "Cleopatra the Goddess") (ca. 164–121 BC) surnamed Eueteria (i.e., "Benefactress"), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. She ruled Syria from 125 BC after the death of Demetrius II Nicator. She eventually ruled in co-regency with her son Antiochus VIII Grypus, who poisoned her in 121 or 120 BC...

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Clitomachus (philosopher) in Wikipedia

Clitomachus (Greek: Κλειτόμαχος, also Cleitomachus or Kleitomachos; 187/6-110/09 BC[1]) originally named Hasdrubal, was a Carthaginian who came to Athens around 146 BC and studied philosophy under Carneades. He became head of the Academy around 127/6 BC. He was an Academic skeptic like his master. Nothing survives of his writings, which were dedica...

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Cleomenes I in Wikipedia

Cleomenes or Kleomenes (pronounced /kliːˈɒmɨniːz/; Greek Κλεομένης; d. c. 489 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC. During his reign, which started around 520 BC, he pursued an adventurous and at times unscrupulous foreign policy aimed at crushing Argos and extending Sparta's influence both inside and outside t...

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Cleopatra V of Egypt in Wikipedia

Cleopatra V Tryphaena of Egypt (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα, born c. 95 BC, died c. 69/68 BC or c. 57 BC) was a Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt. She is the only surely attested wife of Ptolemy XII. Descent and marriage Cleopatra V may have been an illegitimate daughter of Ptolemy IX.[1] She is first mentioned in 79 BC in two papyri. In that year she married Ptolemy...

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