Philoxenus
Philoxenus Aniketos "The Invincible", was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the region spanning the Paropamisade to Punjab. Philoxenus seems to have been quite an important king who might briefly have ruled most of the Indo-Greek territory. Bopearachchi dates Philoxenus to c. 100-95 BCE and R.C. Senior to c. 125-110 BCE.
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Philoxenus of Eretria was a painter from Eretria, the disciple of Nicomachus of Thebes, whose speed in painting he imitated and even surpassed, having discovered some new and rapid methods of colouring[1] Nevertheless, Pliny states that there was a picture of his which was inferior to none, of a battle of Alexander the Great with Darius, which he p...
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Philoxenus or Philoxenos (Greek, foreigner lover) is the name of several prominent ancient Greeks:
* Philoxenus of Cythera, an ancient Greek dithyrambic poet
* Philoxenus of Leucas, a legendary glutton
* King Philoxenus, an Indo-Greek king
* Philoxenus (general), a Macedonian general who was one of the Diadochi
* Philoxenus (physician), ancie...
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A famous Greek dithyrambic poet, of Cythera, born in B.C. 435. He came as a prisoner of war into the possession of the Athenian musician Melanippides, by whom he was educated and set free. He lived long at Syracuse, at the court of the tyrant Dionysius I., who threw him into the stone-quarries for outspoken criticism on his bad poems. On his esc...
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