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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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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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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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John Chrysostom in Wikipedia

John Chrysostom (c. 349–407, Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος), Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and his ascetic sensibilities....

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Cinesias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Κινησίας). A dithyrambic poet of Athens who was ridiculed by Aristophanes and other writers of comedy, in revenge for which he succeeded in securing the abolition of the choregia for comedy. See Choregus....

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Choerĭlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. An Athenian dramatist, one of the oldest Attic tragedians, who appeared as a writer as early as B.C. 520. He was a rival of Pratinas, Phrynichus, and Aeschylus. His favourite line seems to have been the satyric drama, in which he was long a popular writer. 2. A Greek epic poet, born in Samos about B.C. 470, a friend of Herodotus and afterwards...

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Cleinias in Wikipedia

Cleinias, son of (the elder) Alcibiades,[1], and member of the Alcmaeonidae family, was an Athenian who married Deinomache, the daughter of Megacles, and became the father of the famous Alcibiades. Plutarch tells us that he traced his family line back to Eurysaces, the son of Telamonian Ajax. He greatly distinguished himself in the Battle of Artemi...

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