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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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Charmadas in Wikipedia

Charmadas, (or Charmides; 164/3-c. 95 BC[1]) was an Academic philosopher and a disciple of Clitomachus at the Academy in Athens. He was a friend and companion (as he had been the fellow-pupil) of Philo of Larissa. He was teaching in Athens by 110 BC, and was clearly an important philosopher.[2] He was still alive in 103 BC,[3] but was dead by 91 BC...

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Chremonides in Wikipedia

Chremonides (Χρημωνίδης), son of Eteokles, of Aithalidai, was an Athenian 3rd century BC statesman and general. He issued the Decree of Chremonides in 268 BCE, creating an alliance between Sparta, Athens, and Ptolemy II. The alliance was in defense to Antigonus of Macedon and lead to the Chremonidean War....

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Cleandridas in Wikipedia

Cleandridas (greek: Κλεανδρίδας) was a Spartan general of the 5th century BCE, who advised the young Agiad king Pleistoanax during the early part of the latter's reign. According to Plutarch, both Cleandrides and Pleistoanax were banished from Sparta (most likely between the years 446 and 444), for allegedly accepting a bribe from the Athenian lead...

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Clinias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

An Athenian, said by Herodotus (viii. 17) to have been the bravest of his countrymen in the battle fought against the Persian fleet at Artemisium; and the Athenians are said by the same writer to have conducted themselves on that occasion with the greatest valour of any of the Greeks. This Clinias was the father of the celebrated Alcibiades (q.v.)....

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Charondas in Wikipedia

Charondas (Greek Χαρώνδας), a celebrated lawgiver of Catania in Sicily. His date is uncertain. Some make him a pupil of Pythagoras (c. 580 - 504 BC); but all that can be said is that he was earlier than Anaxilas of Rhegium (494 - 476 BC), since his laws were in use amongst the Rhegians until they were abolished by that tyrant. His laws, originally ...

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Cimon in Wikipedia

Cimon (in Greek, Κίμων - Kimōn) (510, Athens – 450 BC, Citium, Cyprus), was an Athenian statesman, strategos, and major political figure in mid-5th century BC Greece. Cimon played a key role in creating the powerful Athenian maritime empire following the failure of the Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes I in 480-479 BC. Cimon became a celebrated ...

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Christodorus in Wikipedia

Christodorus (Greek: Χριστόδωρος), a Greek epic poet from Coptos in Egypt, flourished during the reign of Anastasius I (491-518). According to Suidas, he was the author of Patria (Gr. Πάτρια), accounts of the foundation, history and antiquities of various cities; Lydiaka (Gr. Λυδιακά), the mythical history of Lydia; Isaurica (Gr. Ἰσαυρικά), celebr...

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Cimon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The son of Miltiades and of Hegesipylé, the daughter of Olorus, a Thracian prince. His education, according to Plutarch, was very much neglected, and he himself indulged, at first, in every species of excess. At his father's death he seems to have succeeded to a very scanty fortune, and he would perhaps have found it very difficult to pay the fine ...

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Cleanthes in Wikipedia

Cleanthes (Greek: Κλέανθης, Kléanthēs; c. 330- c. 230 BC) of Assos was a Greek Stoic philosopher and the successor to Zeno as the second head (scholarch) of the Stoic school in Athens. Originally a boxer, he came to Athens where he took up philosophy, listening to Zeno's lectures. He supported himself by working as water-carrier at night. After the...

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