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Cleopatra I Syra in Wikipedia

Cleopatra I Syra (in Greek, Κλεοπάτρα Σύρα), c. 204–176 BC was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt Family Cleopatra I was the daughter of Antiochus III and Laodice III. She married Ptolemy V in 193 BC. They had at least three children [3] [4]: * Ptolemy VI of Egypt born in 186 BC * Cleopatra II of Egypt born ca 187 - 185 BC * Ptolemy VIII Physcon born ...

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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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Cleopātra in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

1. A daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and the wife of Meleager (Hom. Il. ix. 557). 2. The wife of Philip of Macedon, whom that monarch married after he had repudiated Olympias. After the death of Philip, Olympias compelled her to destroy herself (Just.ix. 7). 3. A daughter of Philip and Olympias, and sister to Alexander the Great. She married Alexa...

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Clemens in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

T. Flavius, a Father of the Church, who flourished between A.D. 190 and 217, and is commonly called Alexandrīnus, to distinguish him from Clemens of Rome. He is supposed by some to have been a native of Athens, and by others of Alexandria, but of his real origin very little is known. He early devoted himself to study in the schools of the latter ci...

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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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Cleomenes III in Wikipedia

Cleomenes III (Greek: Κλεομένης) was the King of Sparta from 235-222 BC. He succeeded to the Agiad throne of Sparta after his father, Leonidas II in 235 BC. From 229 BC to 222 BC, Cleomenes waged war against the Achaean League under Aratus of Sicyon. Domestically, he is known for his attempt to reform the Spartan state. After being defeated by the...

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Chrysanthĭus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Χρυσάνθιος). An eclectic philosopher of Sardis; made high-priest of Lydia by the emperor Julian , and supposed to possess a power of conversing with the gods and of predicting future events....

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Cimon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A famous painter, a native of Cleonae, who flourished about B.C. 460. He is said to have been the first to paint in perspective....

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Chilon of Sparta in Wikipedia

Chilon of Sparta (Χείλων; 6th century BC) was a Lacedaemonian and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Life Chilon was the son of Damagetus, and lived towards the beginning of the 6th century BC. Herodotus[1] speaks of him as contemporary with Hippocrates, the father of Peisistratus, and Diogenes Laertius states that he was an old man in the 52nd Oly...

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Clearchus of Rhegium in Wikipedia

Clearchus or Clearch (Greek: Κλέαρχος, Klearkhos) was a sculptor in bronze at Rhegium. [1] He is notable as the teacher of the celebrated Pythagoras, who flourished at the time of Myron and Polykleitos. Clearchus was the pupil of the Corinthian Eucheirus (although was often said to have been apprenticed to the mythical Daedalus),[2] and belongs pro...

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