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Cinesias (poet) in Wikipedia

Cinesias (Greek: Κινησίας, c.450-390 BC) was an innovative dithyrambic poet in classical Athens whose work has survived only in a few fragments. An inscription indicates that he was awarded a victory at the Dionysia in the early 4th century (IG 2/32.3028). His contemporary, the comic poet Aristophanes, ridiculed him in his play The Birds, in which ...

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Cleidemus in Wikipedia

Cleidemus (Greek: Kleidemos) was a Greek author of the mid-fourth century BCE who produced a lost book called Atthis (named for the mother of Erichthonius), dealing with the traditional origins of Athenian law and institutions....

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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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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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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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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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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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