Sostratus of Knidos Cnidus born 3rd century BC , was a Greeks Greek architect and engineer . He designed the lighthouse of Alexandria , one of the Seven Wonders of the World ca. 280 BC , on the island of Pharos off Alexandria, Egypt . External links http www.tmth.edu.gr en aet 6 87.html Sostratus of Cnidus bio from the Technology Museum of Thessaloniki DEFAULTSORT Sostratus Of Cnidus Category Ancient Greek architects Category Lighthouse builders Category Ancient Cnidians Category 3rd century BC people Category Hellenistic engineers Category Ptolemaic court Greece architect stub bg ca S strat arquitecte da Sostratos fra Knidos de Sostratos von Knidos es S strato de Cnido fr Sostrate de Cnide it Sostrato di Chio la Sostratus Cnidius nl Sostratos van Knidos ja pl Sostratos z Knidos pt S strato de Cnido sh Sostrat iz Knida ... more details
Sostratus Sostratos may refer to Sostratus of Cnidus , designer of the Lighthouse of Alexandria Sostratus of Dyme , Greek mythological hero and friend of Hercules Sostratus of Pellene , runner and Olympic winner Sostratus of Macedon conspirator against Alexander dab el it Sostrato la Sostratus ... more details
Other uses Sostratus disambiguation SostratusSostratus was a Greek mythology Greek mythological hero, and a beloved of Heracles . He was from the ancient Achaea n city of Dyme , held in veneration by its inhabitants. As recounted by Pausanias geographer Pausanias in his description of Dyme, on the side of a public road there was the tomb of Sostratus, which was mounded by Hercules to honor his friend. At his tomb there was a pillar with the figure of Hercules where the Dymeans offered sacrifices. ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias , Description of Greece , 7. 17. 8 ref Modern researchers and archeology identified him with Polystratus , a hero of Dyme who assisted Hercules in the war against the Elean king Augeas and was killed there. Archaeological excavations uncovered a pillar identical to that described by Pausanias but with the name Polystratus on it. ref Kostas Triantafylloy Patras Historic Dictionary , 3rd Edition, 1995 ref References references External links http www.theoi.com Heros Sostratos.html Theoi.com Sostratus Category Greek mythology Category Mythology of Achaea Category Dymi Category Greek mythological hero cult Category Pederastic heroes and deities el ... more details
Sostratus Sostratos was an Ancient Greece Ancient Greek Ancient Olympic Games Olympian . He was from the Achaea n Pellene and won in the Olympia, Greece Olympic Games in the 80th Olympiad in 460 BC in the stadium. According to Pausanias geographer Pausanias , Sostratus tried the Olympic victory for the Achaeans after many years as according to a myth in 156 BC in the 6th Olympiad, Oibotas of Dyme won as the Dyme ans did not award as they tried that to curse for not win again as an Achaean in the Olympic Games. The mythology said that the curse caught and that, the Achaeans tried to receive other awards and the statue that brought to Olympia. Then, Sostratus won in the stadium broke the curse. ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias Achaica ref References references Category Ancient Achaean athletes Category Pellene Category Ancient Olympic competitors el ... more details
For other persons with the same name, see SostratusSostratus son of Amyntas, a noble Macedonian youth, in the service of Alexander the Great. He was one of those implicated in the conspiracy of the pages against that monarch, for which he was stoned to death together with his lover Hermolaus of Macedon Hermolaus References Who s who in the age of Alexander the Great prosopography of Alexander s empire ISBN 978 1 4051 1210 9 SmithDGRBM Category 327 BC deaths Category Ancient Macedonians who were executed Category People executed by stoning Category 4th century BC Greek people Category Conspirators against Alexander the Great Category People executed by Alexander the Great ... more details
Diocles lang el of Cnidus , a Platonism Platonic philosopher , who is mentioned as the author of Discussions from which a fragment is quoted by Eusebius blockquote Diocles of Cnidos asserts in his Diatribae , that through fear of the followers of Theodorus the Atheist Theodorus , and of the sophist Bion of Borysthenes Bion , who used to assail the philosophers, and shrank from no means of refuting them, Arcesilaus took precautions, in order to avoid trouble, by never appearing to suggest any dogma, but used to put forward the suspense of judgement as a protection, like the black juice which the cuttlefish es throw out. ref Eusebius , Praeparatio Evangelica 14.6 ref blockquote Notes reflist SmithDGRBM Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Diocles Of Cnidus ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Diocles Of Cnidus Category Academic philosophers Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category 3rd century BC philosophers AncientGreece bio stub ca Diocles de Cnidos ... more details
Infobox Military Conflict conflict Battle of Cnidus partof Corinthian War image File trireme.jpg 300px caption A Greek trireme date 394 BC place Off the coast of Cnidus , in the Aegean Sea casus territory result Decisive Athenian Achaemenid Empire Persian victory combatant1 Athens , br Achaemenid Dynasty Persia combatant2 Sparta commander1 Conon , br Pharnabazus 5th century BC Pharnabazus dn date November 2011 commander2 Peisander general Peisander strength1 90 triremes strength2 85 triremes casualties1 Minimal casualties2 Entire fleet Campaignbox Corinthian War The Battle of Cnidus 394 BC , was a joint Athens Athenian and Achaemenid Empire Persian operation against the Spartan naval fleet in the Corinthian War . A combined Athenian Persian fleet, led by the former Greeks Greek admiral Conon , destroyed the Sparta n fleet led by the inexperienced Peisander general Peisander , ending Sparta s brief bid for naval supremacy. The battle outcome was a significant boost for the anti Spartan coalition that resisted Spartan hegemony in the course of the Corinthian War. Prelude In 394 BC , King Agesilaus II of Sparta and his army were recalled from Ionia to the Greek mainland to help fight the Corinthian War. The Spartan fleet, under Peisander, also began a return to Greece, sailing out from its harbor at Cnidus. The Athenian part of the joint fleet was led by Conon, and the Persian satrap Pharnabazus 5th century BC Pharnabazus dn date November 2011 led a Phoenician fleet from the Chersonese to oppose the Spartans. ref Xenophon, Hellenica , IV 3 10 12 ref The fleets met near Cnidus . According to Isocrates, King Evagoras of Cyprus contributed the greatest part of the forces for the sea fight off Cnidus. The battle Sources are vague for the events of the battle itself. It appears ... Aegean Sea Category 394 BC Category Naval battles involving Sparta Cnidus 394 BC Category Naval battles of the Corinthian War Cnidus 394 BC ca Batalla de Cnidos de Schlacht von Knidos es Batalla ... more details
Distinguish Eudoxus of Cyzicus Eudoxus of Cnidus 410 or 408 BC &ndash 355 or 347 BC was a Ancient Greece Greek astronomer , mathematician , scholar and student of Plato . Since all his own works are lost, knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus s poem on astronomy . Theodosius of Bithynia Theodosius of Bithynia s Sphaerics may be based on a work of Eudoxus. Life His name Eudoxus means honored or of good repute in Greek language Greek , from eu good and doxa opinion, belief, fame . It is analogous to the Latin name Benedictus . Eudoxus s father Aeschines of Cnidus loved to watch stars at night. Eudoxus first travelled to Taranto Tarentum to study with Archytas , from whom he learned mathematics . While in Italy, Eudoxus visited Sicily, where he studied medicine with Philistion of Locri Philiston . Around 387 BC, at the age of 23, he traveled with the physician Theomedon , who according to Diogenes La rtius some believed was his lover, ref Diogenes Laertius VIII.87 ref to Athens to study with the followers of Socrates . He eventually became the pupil of Plato ... eventually returned to his native Cnidus, where he served in the city assembly. While in Cnidus, he ... based on observations made by Eudoxus in Egypt and Cnidus On Speeds , on planetary motions We ... Eudoxus of Cnidus p. 465 7 in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 4 edition publisher year ... applet http www.math.tamu.edu don.allen history eudoxus eudoxus.html Eudoxus of Cnidus MacTutor Biography ... Cnidus Cnidus.html Herodotus Project Extensive B W photo essay of Cnidus http www.dioi.org vols wf0.pdf ... Of Cnidus ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Eudoxus Of Cnidus Category 5th century BC births Category 4th century BC deaths ... kk lt Eudoksas hu Knidoszi Eudoxosz nl Eudoxus van Cnidus ja no Eudoksos ... vi Eudoxus c a Cnidus ... more details
Image Cnidus Aphrodite Altemps Inv8619.jpg thumb 260px The Ludovisi Cnidian Aphrodite , Roman marble copy torso and thighs with restored head, arms, legs and drapery support The Aphrodite of Cnidus was one of the most famous works of the ancient Greece ancient Greek Sculpture sculptor Praxiteles of Classical Athens Athens 4th century BC . It and its copies are often referred to as the Venus Pudica modest Venus type, on account of her covering her naked vulva with her right hand. Variants of the Venus Pudica suggesting an action to cover the breasts are the Venus de Medici or the Capitoline Venus . Original Image Colonna Venus front.jpg thumb left The Colonna Venus The statue became famous for its beauty, meant to be appreciated from every angle, and for being the first life size representation of the nude female form. It depicted the goddess Aphrodite as she prepared for the ritual bath that restored her purity not virginity , discarding her drapery in her left hand, while modestly shielding herself with her right hand. According to a possibly apocryphal account by Pliny the Elder Pliny , Praxiteles received a commission from the citizens of Kos for a statue of the goddess Aphrodite. Praxiteles then created two versions one fully draped, and the other completely nude. The shocked citizens of Kos rejected the nude statue and purchased the draped version. The design and appearance ... the Aphrodite of Cnidus, by Praxiteles Praxiteles was alleged to have used the courtesan Phryne ... File Aphrodite of Cnidus.Munich.jpg thumb left Aphrodite of Cnidus, Glyptothek Munich The statue ... as more or less faithful copies, the Aphrodite of Cnidus also inspired various variations, which ... Aphrodite of Cnidus , part of the Encyclop dia Romana References Theodor Kraus. Die Aphrodite ... of Michigan Press, 1995. DEFAULTSORT Aphrodite Of Cnidus Category 4th century BC Greek sculptures ... de Cnido fr Aphrodite de Cnide it Afrodite cnidia he nl Aphrodite van Cnidus ... more details
style, and Christian sepulchres are common in the neighbourhood. Eudoxus of Cnidus Eudoxus , the astronomer , Ctesias , the writer on History of Persia Persian history , and Sostratus of CnidusSostratus .... The most famous statue by Praxiteles , the Aphrodite of Knidos , was made for Cnidus. It has perished ... has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated ... el es Cnido eo Knido urbo fr Cnide it Cnido la Cnidus nl Cnidus ja no Knidos pl ... more details
Use mdy dates date February 2011 Year nav 285 BC year in topic 285 NOTOC Year 285 BC was a year of the Roman calendar pre Julian Roman calendar . At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Canina and Lepidus or, less frequently, year 469 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 285 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events onlyinclude By place Egypt June 26 &ndash Ancient Egypt Egypt s Ptolemy I Soter abdicates. He is succeeded by his youngest son by his wife Berenice I of Egypt Berenice , Ptolemy II Philadelphus , who has been co regent for three years. A 110 metre tall Lighthouse of Alexandria lighthouse on the island of Pharos in Alexandria s harbour is completed and serves as a landmark for ships in the eastern Mediterranean . Built by Sostratus of Cnidus for Ptolemy II of Egypt , it is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is a technological triumph and is the archetype of all lighthouses since. A broad spiral ramp leads to the top, where a fire burns at night. Seleucid Empire Demetrius Poliorcetes is deserted by his troops and surrenders to Seleucus I Nicator Seleucus at Cilicia , where Seleucus keeps him a prisoner. onlyinclude Births Deaths Dicaearchus , Ancient Greece Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author b. c. 350 BC Theophrastus , Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos , the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school b. c. 370 BC References Reflist DEFAULTSORT 285 Bc Category 285 BC ast 285 edC be 285 . . be x old 285 . . bs 285 p.n.e. ca 285 aC cs 285 p . n. l. cy 285 CC da 285 f.Kr. de 285 v. Chr. el 285 . . es 285 a. C. eo 285 eu K. a. 285 fa fr 285 gl 285 ko 285 hy . . . 285 hr 285. pr. Kr. io 285 aK id 285 SM it 285 a.C. ka . . 285 kk . . . 285 sw 285 KK la 285 a.C.n. lb 285 lt 285 m. pr. m. e. hu I. e. 285 mk 285 . . . mr ... more details
was finished during his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus Ptolemy Philadelphos s reign. Strabo reported that Sostratus of CnidusSostratus had a dedication inscribed in metal letters to the Saviour Gods . Later Pliny the Elder wrote that Sostratus was the architect, which is disputed. ref cite book last Tomlinson ... PA105&dq pliny Sostratus lighthouse v onepage&q pliny 20Sostratus 20 20lighthouse&f false pages 104 105 ref In the second century AD the satirist Lucian wrote that Sostratus inscribed his name under ..., Sostratus s name would be visible in the stone. ref cite book last Mckenzie first Judith title Architecture ... 0300115550 url http books.google.co.uk books?id KFNCaZEZKYAC&pg PA41&dq plaster Sostratus ptolemy ... more details
Other persons Philotas Philotas son of Carsis was a Thracians Thracian , who may have married the daughter of a Macedon ian aristocrat named Philotas. He was one of the page servant page s basilikoi paides in the service of Alexander the Great, who were induced by Hermolaus and Sostratus of Macedon Sostratus to join in the conspiracy against the king s life. He was stoned to death together with the other accomplices. References Who s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel ISBN 978 1 4051 1210 9 SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Philotas Son Of Carsis Category Royal pages of Alexander the Great Category Ancient Thracians who were executed Category Conspirators against Alexander the Great Category People executed by Alexander the Great ... more details
In Greek mythology , Polystratus was a handsome youth beloved by Heracles . He is solely known from an epigram uncovered in Dyme , Achaea , which is ascribed to Alcaeus of Messene according to it, Polystratus accompanied Heracles in his campaign against the Eurytus and Cteatus Molionidae and was killed in the battle, whereupon Heracles cut the hair off the top of his own head as a sign of grief. Polystratus is likely the same as Sostratus of Dyme Sostratus there is a possibility that the name was altered because the youth was honored by the Dymaeans as savior of the city s being the Greek stem with the meaning save . ref Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher ed. Ausf hrliches Lexikon der griechischen und r mischen Mythologie. Band 3. 2 Pasikrateia Pyxios , Leipzig, 1902 1909, ss. 2717 2718 ref References reflist Greek myth stub Category Greek mythology Category Mythology of Achaea ... more details
Greeks This is a list of Greek artists from the antiquity to today. Artists have been categorised according to their main artistic profession and according to the major historical period they lived in The Ancient until the foundation of the Byzantine Empire , the Byzantine until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Modern period 1453 today . Ancient Greece Poets main List of Ancient Greek poets Painters Agatharchus , Antiphilus , Apelles , Apollodorus painter , Aristides of Thebes , Cimon of Cleonae , Echion painter , Euphranor , Eupompus , Melanthius , Panaenus , Parrhasius painter Parrhasius , Pausias , Polyeidos poet , Polygnotus , Protogenes , Theon of Samos , Timarete , Timomachus , Zeuxis , Vase painters main List of Greek Vase Painters Potters Andokides , Euphronios , Euthymides , Exekias , Kachrylion , Nikosthenes , Phintias painter , Sculptors Agasias, son of Cephisodotus the Younger , Chares of Lindos , Damophon , Demetrius of Alopece , Dipoenus and Scyllis , Endoeus , Epigonus , Euphranor , Eutychides , Hegias of Athens , Kresilas , Kritios , Leochares , Lycius sculptor , Lysippos , Lysistratus , Menecrates sculptor , Micon , Myron , Onatas , Paeonius , Pasiteles , Phidias , Polycles 370 BCE , Polycles 155 BC , Polykleitos , Polykleitos the Younger , Praxias and Androsthenes , Praxiteles , Pythagoras of Rhegium , Rhoecus , Scopas , Silanion , Smilis , Sosicles sculptor , Strongylion , Theodorus of Samos , Thrasymedes , Timotheos , Xenokrates of Sicyon Architects Apollodorus of Damascus , Callimachus sculptor , Chersiphron , Dinocrates , Eupalinus , Iktinos , Kallikrates , Metagenes , Mnesikles , Aeulius Nicon , Philon , Pythis , Satyros , Sostratus of Cnidus , Novelists Achilles Tatius , Antonius Diogenes , Chariton , Heliodorus of Emesa , Iamblichus novelist , Longus , Lucian , Xenophon of Ephesus Greeks Actors Metrobius , Thespis Marlee Dramatists and playwrights Achaeus of Eretria , Achaeus of Syracuse , Aeschylus , Agathon , Alexander Aetolus , ... more details
Several people or things bear the name Aeschylus Aeschylus , Athenian playwright of the 5th century BC, best known for the Oresteia trilogy Aeschylus of Athens , King of Athens from 778 755 BC Aeschylus of Alexandria , epic poet in the 2nd century Aeschylus of Cnidus , contemporary of Cicero, and one of the most celebrated rhetoricians in Asia Minor Aeschylus of Rhodes , governor of that city after its conquest by Alexander the Great 2876 Aeschylus , asteroid named after the playwright disambig DEFAULTSORT Aeschylus ... more details
Deveboynu Cape Turkish language Turkish Deveboynu Burnu Greek language Greek Krio is a promontory in southwest Turkey , on the Aegean Sea , at the extreme end of the Dat a Peninsula , north of the island of Rhodes . The modern town of Tekir is located here. It was probably the location of the ancient city of Cnidus q.v. . Mu la geo stub coord missing Turkey Category Headlands of Turkey Category Mu la ... more details
Knidus or Cnidus was an Ancient Greece ancient Greek city on the Elaea promontory of Cyprus Elaea promontory in northeastern Cyprus . It currently lies in the de facto Northern Cyprus Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus References Richard Talbert , Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World , ISBN 0 691 03169 X , p. 72 Cyprus geo stub Euro hist stub coord missing Cyprus Category Ancient cities in Northern Cyprus Category Former populated places in Cyprus ... more details
Levogyre can refer to In chemistry, a synonym of levorotation , In astronomy, the Levogyre is the long since discredited structure of the Universe proposed by ancient Greek astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus A series of nested crystalline spheres which contains fixed stars and moving planets which rotate around an immovable Earth with each sphere connected a randomly distributed series by gimbal like axes. In art, The Levogyre is a 1974 painting by Paul Laffoley depicting a series of nested shells connected by gimbals. disambig ... more details
the younger and Canachus , Synno n, Ptolichus , Sostratus artists Sostratus , and Pantias . There is some ... & Canachus 540 508 Synno n 510 478 , Ptolichus 480 448 Sostratus 450 418 Pantias 420 388 These dates ... more details
Image Aiol ion dor ehirleri.jpg 250px right thumb Greek city unions in Anatolia, Red are Doric cities The Doric or Dorian Hexapolis was a federation of six cities hexapolis of Dorians Dorian foundation, and included Kos , on the island of the same name in the Aegean Sea Aegean sea Cnidus , in Caria Halicarnassus , also in Caria Lindus , on the island of Rhodes Ialysos , also on Rhodes and Camirus , also on Rhodes. The members of this hexapolis were accustomed to celebrate a festival, with games, on the Triopian promontory near Cnidus, in honour of the Triopian Apollo the prizes in those games were brazen tripods, which the victors had to dedicate in the Greek temple temple of Apollo and Halicarnassus was struck out of the league, because one of her citizens carried the tripod to his own house before dedicating it in the temple of Apollo. The hexapolis thus became the Doric Pentapolis . Herodotus Herod. i. 144. See also Decapolis meaning ten cities Heptapolis meaning seven cities Pentapolis five Tetrapolis disambiguation Tetrapolis four Tripolis three Doris Asia Minor References SmithDGRG coord missing Turkey Category Ancient Greek sites in Turkey Category Dorian Hexapolis Category Doris Greece Ancient Greece stub ca Hex polis d rica de Dorische Hexapolis es Hex polis d rica eu Hexapolis doriarra it Esapoli dorica he la Hexapolis Dorica no Det doriske hexapolis pl Heksapolis pt Hex pole D rica fi Doorilainen heksapolis ... more details
Eudoxus Pronunciation needed needing not the original Latin Greek pronunciation, but the Anglicized pronunciation that Classics Philosophy History etc. scholars use in English or Eudoxos was the name of two ancient Greece ancient Greeks Eudoxus of Cnidus c. 400s BC 408 BC c. 340s BC 347 BC , Greek astronomer and mathematician. Eudoxus of Cyzicus fl. 130s BC 130 BC , Greek navigator. See also Eudoxus lunar crater 11709 Eudoxos , asteroid disambiguation ca Eud xius de Eudoxos el es Eudoxus fr Eudoxe it Eudosso disambigua he no Eudoksos pl Eudoksos pt Eudoxo ... more details
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