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Cleitarchus in Wikipedia

Cleitarchus or Clitarchus (Greek: Κλείταρχος), one of the historians of Alexander the Great, son of the historian Dinon of Colophon, was possibly a native of Egypt, or at least spent a considerable time at the court of Ptolemy Lagus. Quintilian (Instit. x. I. 74) credits him with more ability than trustworthiness, and Cicero (Brutus, II) accuses h...

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Cleomedes in Wikipedia

Cleomedes (Κλεoμήδης) was a Greek astronomer who is known chiefly for his book On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies. Placing his work chronologically His birth and death dates are not known-historians have suggested that he wrote his work sometime between the mid-1st century BC and 400 AD. The earlier estimates rely on the fact that Cle...

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Cleopatra IV of Egypt in Wikipedia

Cleopatra IV (Greek : Κλεοπάτρα) was Queen of Egypt briefly from 116-115 BC, jointly with her husband Ptolemy IX Lathyros. She later became queen consort of Syria as the wife of Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.[1][2] Biography Cleopatra IV was the daughter of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III of Egypt. She was born between 138 and 135 BC. She was the ...

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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 Wikipedia

Cleon (Greek: Κλέων, sometimes Kleon) (d. 422 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and a Strategos during the Peloponnesian War. He was the first prominent representative of the commercial class in Athenian politics, although he was an aristocrat himself. Contemporaries Thucydides and Aristophanes represented him as a warmonger and a demagogue; modern hi...

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Cleopatra VI of Egypt in Wikipedia

Cleopatra VI Tryphaena (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Τρύφαινα) was an Egyptian Ptolemaic queen. She may be identical with Cleopatra V. There were at least two, perhaps three Ptolemaic women called Cleopatra Tryphaena: * The daughter of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III, sister of Ptolemy IX Lathyros, Ptolemy X Alexander I, Cleopatra IV and Cleopatra Se...

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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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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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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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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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