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Clisthĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

An Athenian, the son of Megacles and Agarista. He was the head of the Alcmaeonid family, and was opposed by Isagoras and the nobles; but by the support of the people reformed the constitution of the State upon a democratic basis. His changes were * 1. the establishment of ten instead of four tribes, and the division into demes (see Demus); * 2. ...

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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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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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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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Chrysippus in Wikipedia

Chrysippus of Soli (Ancient Greek: Χρύσιππος ὁ Σολεύς, Chrysippos ho Soleus; c. 279–c. 206 BC[1]) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of Cleanthes in the Stoic school. When Cleanthes died, around 230 BC, Chrysippus became the third head of the school. A prolifi...

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Cineas in Wikipedia

In Roman history, Cineas was a minister of Thessaly and friend of King Pyrrhus of Epirus. In the war with Rome, Pyrrhus sent Cineas to Rome to sue for peace. The Roman Senate would not agree to cease hostilities. Cineas, however, told Pyrrhus that the Senate was an assemblage of venerable kings and that fighting with them was like fighting against ...

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Cleisthenes of Sicyon in Wikipedia

Cleisthenes (also Clisthenes or Kleisthenes) was the tyrant of Sicyon from c. 600–570 BC, who aided in the First Sacred War against Kirrha that destroyed that city in 595 BC. He is also told to have organized with success a war against Argos because of his anti-Dorian feelings. After his victory he abolished all the rhapsodists of Homer, because th...

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Chionides in Wikipedia

Chionides (Greek: Χιωνίδης or Χιονίδης) an Athenian comic poet of the 5th century BC, contemporary of Magnes (comic poet). The Suda says that Chionides existed 8 years before Greco–Persian Wars, that is, 487 BC. But Augustus Meineke thinks that Chionides flourished no earlier than 460 BC; and in confirmation of this date he quotes from Athenaeus, w...

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Clearchus of Sparta in Wikipedia

Clearchus or Clearch (Greek: Κλέαρχος), the son of Rhamphias, was a Spartan general and mercenary. Born about the middle of the 5th century BC, Clearchus was sent with a fleet to the Hellespont in 411 and became governor of Byzantium, of which town he was proxenus. His severity, however, made him unpopular, and in his absence the gates were opened...

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