Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox Military Conflict colour scheme background cccccc color 2222cc image caption conflict Battle of Syme partof the Peloponnesian War date 411 BC place Off Symi Syme result Spartan victory combatant1 Sparta combatant2 Athens commander1 Astyoches commander2 Charminus strength1 9,000 strength2 8,000 casualties1 900 casualties2 2,900 Campaignbox Peloponnesian War The Battle of Syme was a naval battle in 411 BC between Sparta and Athens , during the Peloponnesian War . It took place near the island of Symi Syme in the south eastern Aegean Sea . In 411 the Spartans made an alliance with Achaemenid Empire Persia . The alliance was made by Therimenes, who handed the Spartan fleet over to Astyochus once the negotiations were complete Therimenes later drowned at sea. Astyochus was instructed to sail to Cnidus to meet up with twenty seven ships from Kaunos Caunus , equipped for them by the Persians. Meanwhile, the Athenian fleet was stationed at Samos under the command of Charminus. Charminus knew the Spartans were coming, having been informed by the Melos Melians , and prepared to meet Astyochus at Syme. The fleets met during a storm, with poor visibility, and after many of the Spartan ships had become separated from the main fleet. With about twenty ships Charminus battled with the Spartan left wing, the only portion visible to him, and sank three ships. However, the rest of the Spartan fleet then arrived and surrounded the Athenians. Charminus retreated to Halicarnassus after losing six ships. The rest of the Athenian fleet came out from Samos and sailed to Cnidus, but neither side was willing to fight another battle. Coord missing Greece DEFAULTSORT Battle Of Syme Category Naval battles of the Peloponnesian War Syme Category 411 BC Category Ancient Aegean Sea de Schlacht von Syme el es Batalla de Symi no Slaget ved Syme sr sh Bitka kod Sime ... more details
Distinguish2 the region of Doris Greece Doris in central Greece Infobox bodyclass geography abovestyle background DEB887 subheader Ancient Region of Anatolia above Doris image File mausoleumHALICARNASSUS.JPG 300px The ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World caption The ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos , one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World label1 Location data1 South western Anatolia label2 State existed data2 Independent city states from c.1100&ndash c.560 BC label3 Biggest city data3 Halicarnassus label4 Roman provinces Roman province data4 Asia Roman province Asia data8 File Anatolia Ancient Regions base.svg 300px Location of Doris in Anatolia Doris Greek language Greek lang grc was a small region of ancient Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians the territory is now in modern day Turkey . Pliny the Elder Pliny v. 28 says, Caria mediae Doridi circumfunditur ad mare utroque latere ambiens , by which he means that Doris is surrounded by Caria on all sides, except where it is bordered by the sea. He makes Doris begin at Cnidus . In the bay of Doris he places Leucopolis , Hamaxitus , etc. An attempt has been made among scholars to ascertain which of two bays Pliny calls Doridis Sinus , the more probable being the Ceramic Gulf . This Doris of Pliny is the country occupied by the Dorians, which Thucydides ii. 9 indicates, not by the name of the country, but of the people Dorians, neighbours of the Carians. Ptolemy v. 2 makes Doris a division of his Asia , and places in it Halicarnassus , Ceramus , and Cnidus . The term Doris, applied to a part of Asia, does not appear to occur in other writers. References SmithDGRG Historical regions of Anatolia Ancient Greece topics AncientGreece stub coord missing Turkey Category Ancient Greek sites in Turkey Category Historical regions of Anatolia Category Caria Category Ancient Greeks in Caria Category Doris Greece Category Greek Anatolia el it Doride Asia ... more details
Acestorides Greek language Greek lang grc is the name of several people from Classical history Acestorides of Corinth fl. 4th century BC was a native of Corinth who was made supreme commander of Syracuse by the citizens of the Sicily Sicilian polis of Syracuse, Italy Syracuse in 320 BC and was able to banish the tyrant Agathocles from the city. ref Diodorus , xix. 5, http visualiseur.bnf.fr Visualiseur?Destination Gallica&O NUMM 82232 p. 12 ref ref name dgrbm Citation last Smith first William author link William Smith lexicographer contribution Acestorides 1 and 2 editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 7 8 publisher place Boston year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0016.html ref Acestorides then left Syracuse in 319 BC and Sostratus became the leader of the city until Agathocles recaptured the city in 317 BC. ref http www.attalus.org names a acestorides.html viewed 15 January 2010 ref Another Acestorides , whose date is unknown, wrote four books of myth ical stories relating to every city lang grc . In these he gave many real historical accounts, as well as those which were merely fantastical, but he entitled them lang grc myths to avoid calumny and to indicate the pleasant nature of the work. It was compiled from Conon mythographer Conon , Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Apollodorus , Protagoras and others. ref name dgrbm ref Phot. Bibl. cod. 189 ref ref John Tzetzes , Chiliades vii. 144 ref References reflist SmithDGRBM Persondata NAME Acestorides ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Mythographer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Acestorides Category Ancient Corinthians Category Ancient Syracuse Category Ancient Greek mythographers Category 4th century BC people Category Year of birth unknown Category Year of death unknown Ancient Greece bio stub Sicily stub Ancient Greece writer stub ca ... more details
Colaeus lang el was an ancient Samian explorer and silver merchant from, who according to Herodotus Hdt. 4.152 was the first Greek to arrive at Tartessos circa 640 B.C. He was richly endowed by the city s king Arganthonios and returned him to Greece. In an era where most Greek traders were anonymous, Herodotus believed that Colaeus and Sostratus the Aeginetan were important enough to note. Colaeus was on a venture to Egypt when he was blown off course by a great storm through the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic by the Strait of Gibraltar as far as Tartessus, south western Spain. Tartessus had previously been unvisited by traders and Colaeus was able to obtain a cargo of metal and return it safely to Samos. Upon his return, he dedicated one tenth of his profits to his native goddess, Hera. It is widely believed that the storm was an invention by Colaeus to hide his trade route from his competitors as the rewards from the previously untapped source of metal proved immense. Many Phocaeans followed Colaeus voyage and profited enough to build a new fortification wall for Phocaea. ref John Boardman, The Cambridge ancient history Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean c. 525 479 B.C. , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1988 ref References reflist Sources The role of metals in ancient Greek history By Michail Yu Treister Page 102 ISBN 9004099174 The ancient explorers By Max Cary, Eric Herbert Warmington Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Colaeus ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category Ancient Greek explorers Category Ancient Samians Category Ancient Greek merchants Category Year of birth unknown Category Year of death unknown Category Exploration of Europe Category 7th century BC Greek people Category Tartessos Ancient Greece bio stub explorer stub cs Colaeus de Kolaios es Coleo de Samos ... more details
Diocles may refer to Diocles mathematician c. 240 BC c. 180 BC , Greek mathematician and geometer Diocles mythology , one of the first priests of Demeter Diocles of Carystus , 4th century BC Greek physician Diocles of Cnidus , Greek philosopher who wrote a work quoted by Eusebius Diocles of Corinth , winner of the stadion race of the 13th Olympic Games in 728 BC Diocles of Magnesia , Greek writer on ancient philosophers quoted many times by Diogenes Laertius Diocles of Messenia , winner of the stadion race of the 7th Olympic Games in 752 BC Diocles of Peparethus , Greek historian in the 3rd century BC Diocles of Syracuse , fl . 413 408 BC , Greek lawgiver in the city state of Syracuse Diocletian 244 311 , Roman emperor formerly named Diocles Gaius Appuleius Diocles , Roman charioteer Disambiguation given name ca Diocles de Diokles el es Diocles fr Diocl s it Diocle hu Diokl sz egy rtelm s t lap nl Diocles pl Diokles ru ... more details
italictitle The Er tes or Amores Loves , or The two kinds of love is a Greek language Greek dialogue, an example of contest literature , comparing the love of women and the love of boys, and concluding that the latter was preferable. The dialogue was transmitted among the works of Lucian . Most modern scholars believe that the style of the dialogue puts into question its authorship. The work is normally cited under the name of Pseudo Lucian . The Er tes is also famous for its vivid description of the Aphrodite of Cnidus Cnidian Aphrodite of Praxiteles . The same subject is treated in the Amatorius of Plutarch , but with the opposite conclusion. Translations http www.well.com user aquarius lucian amores.htm Amores English only, Loeb version http trad.glossa.dk erotes.html Erotes Greek original and Danish translation References Judith Mossman, Heracles, Prometheus, and the play of genres in Lucian s Amores, in Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison and Jas Elsner eds , Severan culture Cambridge, CUP, 2007 . Category Works by Lucian Category Ancient Greek erotic literature Category Pederastic literature br Erotes ... more details
Attalus of Rhodes lang el was an ancient Greek Philologist grammarian , astronomer , and mathematician , who lived in Rhodes in the 2nd century BC, and was a contemporary of Hipparchus . He wrote a commentary on the Phaenomena of Aratus . Although this work is lost, Hipparchus cites him in his Commentary on the Phaenomena of Eudoxus and Aratus . Attalus sought to defend both Aratus and Eudoxus of Cnidus Eudoxus against criticisms from contemporary astronomers and mathematicians. Greek astronomy DEFAULTSORT Attalus Of Rhodes Category Ancient Greek astronomers Category Ancient Greek grammarians Category Ancient Greek mathematicians Category 2nd century BC Greek people Category 2nd century BC writers Category Ancient Rhodian grammarians Category Ancient Rhodian scientists de Attalos von Rhodos el es Attalus de Rodas hu Rodoszi Attalosz sl Atal z Rodosa sh Atal sa Rodosa ... more details
Posidippus , Poseidippus , or Poseidippos lang grc may refer to Posidippus of Pella c. 310 BC 240 BC , epigrammatic poet Posidippus comic poet 316 BC ca. 250 BC, poet of New Comedy Poseidippus historian on Cnidus perhaps the epigrammatist Poseidippos of Pella priest of Persephone ref http epigraphy.packhum.org inscriptions oi?ikey 153292&bookid 172®ion 4&subregion 11 SEG 42 619,b ref perhaps the epigrammatist ref Greek Mysteries The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults Page 215 By Michael B. Cosmopoulos ISBN 0415248736 ref Poseidippos son of Eupolis from Miletos ,city president stephanophoroi stephanophoros honouring Selecus I Nikator ref A Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetteer Page 661 By John D. Grainger ISBN 9004096302 ref References Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 2838.html Poseidippus reflist disambig el ... more details
For the beetle genus, see Ctesias beetle . Ctesias of Cnidus IPAc en icon t i s lang grc was a Hellenic civilization Greek physician and historian from Cnidus in Caria . Ctesias, who lived in the 5th century BC, was physician to Artaxerxes II Artaxerxes Mnemon , whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger . Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of India entitled Indica which is of value as recording the beliefs of the Persians about India , and of a history of Assyria and History of Persia Persia in 23 books, called Persica , written in opposition to Herodotus in the Ionic Greek Ionic dialect , and professedly founded on the Persian royal archives. Persica The first six books treated of the history of Assyria and Babylon to the foundation of the Persian empire the remaining seventeen went down to the year 398 BC. Of the two histories, we possess abridgments by Photios I of Constantinople Photius , and fragments are preserved in Athenaeus , Plutarch and especially Diodorus Siculus , whose second book is mainly from Ctesias. As to the worth of the Persica there has been much controversy, both in ancient and modern times. Although many ancient authorities valued it highly, and used it to discredit Herodotus , a modern author writes that Ctesias s unreliability makes Herodotus seem a model of accuracy. ref Burn A.R. Persia and the Greeks. Duckworth. London. 1984. As quoted by Peter Frederick Barker, FROM THE SCAMANDER TO SYRACUSE. STUDIES IN ANCIENT LOGISTICS, page 9, chapter 1. http uir.unisa.ac.za bitstream handle 10500 1740 00dissertation.pdf?sequence 2 ref Ctesias s account of the Assyrian kings does not reconcile with the Cuneiform script cuneiform evidence. The satirist ... mendacious histories among them were Ctesias of Cnidus, Herodotus, and many others. ref Lucian, A True ... External links http www.livius.org ct cz ctesias ctesias.htm Ctesias of Cnidus http www.livius.org ... more details
refimprove date September 2011 Theodosius of Bithynia ca. 160 BC ca. 100 BC was a Greek people Greek astronomer and mathematician who wrote the Sphaerics , a book on the geometry of the sphere. Born in Tripolis Bithynia Tripolis , in Bithynia , Theodosius is cited by Vitruvius as having invented a sundial suitable for any place on Earth. His Sphaerics provided the mathematics for spherical astronomy , and may have been based on a work by Eudoxus of Cnidus . Francesco Maurolico translated his works in the 16th century. In addition to the Sphaerics , two other works by Theodosius have survived On Habitations , describing the appearances of the heavens at different climes , and On Days and Nights , a study of the apparent motion of the Sun. References Ivor Bulmer Thomas , Theodosius of Bithynia, Dictionary of Scientific Biography 13 319 320. Category Ancient Greek astronomers Category Ancient Greek astrologers Category Ancient Greek mathematicians Category Geometers Category 2nd century BC Greek people Category 2nd century BC writers Category 160 BC births Category 100 BC deaths Greek astronomy Greek mathematics Ancient Greece bio stub euro mathematician stub greece scientist stub euro astronomer stub es Teodosio de Bitinia fr Th odose de Tripoli it Teodosio di Bitinia ja pms Teod si ru sl Teodozij sh Teodozije iz Bitinije uk ... more details
for the Rhodian poet Peisander Peisander lang el was a Sparta n general during the Corinthian War . In 395 BC, he was placed in command of the Spartan fleet in the Aegean Sea Aegean by his half brother, the king Agesilaus II . Peisander was a relatively inexperienced general, and in the first action his fleet saw, at the Battle of Cnidus , the Spartan fleet was decisively defeated. Peisander died fighting aboard his ship. References Fine, John V.A. The Ancient Greeks A critical history Harvard University Press, 1983 . ISBN 0 674 03314 0 cite wikisource title Hellenica wslink Hellenica Xenophon author Xenophon others Trans. Henry Graham Dakyns year 1890s origyear original 4th century BC Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Peisander ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Peisander Category Ancient Spartan admirals Category 4th century BC Greek people Category Ancient Greeks killed in battle Category 394 BC deaths Category Corinthian War ca Pisandre d Esparta de Peisander el es Pisandro general sh Pizandar general fi Peisandros ... more details
Image Capitoline Venus Borghese Louvre Ma335.jpg thumb right 200px The Borghese Venus Louvre Borghese Venus , 2nd century BC Roman marble copy of the Aphrodite of Cnidus Capitoline Venus subtype . Once in the Borghese collection , it now resides in the Louvre Museum thanks to its purchase by Napoleon . The accompanying Cupid and dolphin are both classical attributes of Venus but are probably the addition of the Roman copyist. Its accession number is MR 369 Ma 335 . Other ancient Venuses at the Louvre Three other Venuses were acquired from the Borghese collection at the same time, though the last two are far more restored than this example http cartelen.louvre.fr cartelen visite?srv car not frame&idNotice 845 Aphrodite at the pillar , an http cartelen.louvre.fr cartelen visite?srv car not frame&idNotice 27465 Armed Venus and a Venus Pudica http cartelen.louvre.fr cartelen visite?srv car not frame&idNotice 27464 . External links http cartelen.louvre.fr cartelen visite?srv car not frame&idNotice 889 Louvre catalogue Category Cnidian Venuses Category Capitoline Venuses Category Antiquities acquired by Napoleon Category Borghese antiquities Category Roman copies of Greek sculptures Sculpture stub br Venus Borghese ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 For other uses, see Hellenion Hellenion Ancient Greek Greek lang grc ref spelled also Helleneion ref was an Ancient Greece Ancient Greek sanctuary ref Excursions in Epichoric History Aiginetan Essays http books.google.com books?id VWzjMXir8yIC&pg PA319&dq Hellenion&sig FCOI1uIYpNei9K lK8xAjiZQQ3E Page 319 By Thomas J. Figueira ISBN 0 8476 7792 3 ref ref More Studies in the Ancient Greek polis http books.google.com books?id E1JwaNcuT0sC&pg PA24&dq Hellenion&sig dr7 eOK7elrssfZ1kiKhLZcE4jE Page 24 By Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub ISBN 3 515 06969 0 ref in Naucratis Egypt , founded by the cities Rhodos , Cnidus , Halicarnassus , Phaselis , Chios , Teos , Phocaea , Clazomenae ref Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece http books.google.com books?id A 0UAAAAIAAJ&pg PA130&dq Hellenion&lr &sig NZWhkD lOGw761RqQRr6kY gw80 Page 130 By Irad Malkin ISBN 90 04 07119 9 ref and Mytilene ref Herodotus http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?doc Perseus text 1999.01.0126 book 2 chapter 178 section 1 2.178.1 ref in the reign of Amasis 6th century BC . References reflist Ancient Greece stub coord missing Egypt Category Ancient Greek sites in Egypt Category Archaic Greece ... more details
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Dinarchus or Dinarch Corinth , c. 361 BC c. 291 BC was a logographer speech writer in Ancient Greece. He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC. A son of Sostratus or, according to the Suda , Socrates , Dinarchus settled at Athens early in life, and when not more than twenty five was already active as a logographer legal logographer &mdash a writer of speeches for the law courts. As a metic , he was unable to take part in the debates. He had been the pupil both of Theophrastus and of Demetrius Phalereus , and had early acquired a certain fluency and versatility of style. In 324 the Areopagus , after inquiry, reported that nine men had taken bribes from Harpalus , the fugitive treasurer of Alexander the Great Alexander . Ten public prosecutors were appointed. Dinarchus wrote, for one or more of these prosecutors, the three speeches which are still extant Against Demosthenes , Against Aristogeiton , and Against Philocles . The sympathies of Dinarchus were in favor of an Athenian oligarchy under Macedon ian control but it should be remembered that he was not an Athenian citizen. Aeschines and Demades had no such excuse. In the Harpalus affair, Demosthenes as well as the others accused, were probably innocent. Yet Hypereides , the most fiery of the patriots, was on the same side as Dinarchus. Under the regency of his old master, Demetrius Phalereus, Dinarchus exercised much political influence. The years 317 307 were the most prosperous of his life. On the fall of Demetrius Phalereus and the restoration of the democracy by Demetrius Poliorcetes , Dinarchus was condemned to death and withdrew into exile at Chalcis in Euboea . About 292, thanks to his friend Theophrastus , he was able to return to Attica, and took up his abode in the country with a former associate, Proxenus. He afterwards brought an action against Proxenus on the ground that he had ... more details
For the lunar crater Agatharchides crater Agatharchides or Agatharchus of Cnidus was a ancient Greece Greek historian and geographer flourished 2nd century BC . Life He is believed to have been born at Cnidus , hence his appellation. As Stanley M. Burstein notes, the evidence for Agatharchides life is meagre. Photios I of Constantinople Photius describes him as a threptos , a kind of assistant of servile origin, to Cinnaeus and states that he was later a secretary to Heraclides Lembus . Cinnaeus served as a counselor to Ptolemy VI Heraclides is best known for negotiating the treaty that ended Antiochus IV s invasion of Egypt in 169 BC. Agatharchides furnishes few clues about his own life. At the conclusion of his On the Erythraean Sea , he apologizes for being unable to complete his work since our age is unable to similarly bear the toil and as a result of the disturbances in Egypt he could no longer access the official records a fragment cited by Photius in his Bibliotheca Cod. 250.110, 460b . There are two possible occasions when this could have happened the first was in 145 BC, when Ptolemy VIII purged Alexandria, Egypt Alexandria of the intellectuals who supported his rivals for the throne and in 132 BC after Ptolemy, who had been driven from his kingdom by a rebellion in Alexandria, returned and exacted reprisals on that city. While most scholars have favored the later date, Burstein argues for the earlier one. Extracts from the first book of his Erythraean Sea , written in the first person and advocating a military campaign into the lands south of Egypt, led early scholars to deduce that Agatharchides was an important political figure of his time, and served as a guardian to one of the sons of Ptolemy VIII. Edward Dodwell Dodwell endeavored to show that it the younger son, Alexander, and objects to Ptolemy IX Lathyros Soter , that he reigned ... Stanley M. Burstein, translator and editor. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society Agatharchides of Cnidus ... more details
Cratippus lang grc fl. c. 375 BC , was a Greece Greek historian . There are only three or four references to him in ancient literature, and his importance derives from his being identified by several scholars e.g. Friedrich Blass Blass with the author of the historical fragment discovered by Grenfell and Hunt. The fragment itself was published in Oxyrhyncus Oxyrhynchus Papyri , vol. v, and is known as the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia . It may be regarded as a fairly certain inference from a passage in Plutarch lang la De Gloria Atheniensium , p. 345 E, ed. Bernardakis, ii. p. 455 that he was an Athens Athenian writer, intermediate in date between Thucydides and Xenophon , and that his work continued the narrative of Thucydides, from the point at which the latter historian stopped 410 BC down to the Battle of Cnidus . Further reading cite journal last Gomme first A. W. authorlink Arnold Wycombe Gomme coauthors year 1954 month title Who Was Kratippos ? journal The Classical Quarterly volume 4 issue pages 53 55 url accessdate quote doi 10.1017 S0009838800007886 cite journal last Lehmann first Gustav A. authorlink coauthors year 1976 month title lang de Ein Historiker namens Kratippos journal lang de Zeitschrift f r Papyrologie und Epigraphik volume 23 issue pages 265 288 issn 00845388 url accessdate quote 1911 Category Classical era Greek historians Category Ancient Athenian historians Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC historians ca Cr tip historiador de Kratippos von Athen el es Cratipo de Atenas la Cratippus Atheniensis pt Cr tipo de Atenas ru fi Kratippos ... more details
For other uses of the word Dati, see Dati disambiguation . Datis or Datus was a Mede Median admiral who served the Achaemenid Empire Persian Empire , under Darius the Great . He is most notable for his joint leadership with Artaphernes of the Persian forces in the first campaign of the Persian Wars against the Greeks. Datis was one of the Persian commanders responsible for the siege of Naxos Island Naxos and the sacking of Eretria in 490 BC along with the infamous Persian Immortals. He was also leader of the Persian assault force on the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon in the same year. Ctesias of Cnidus relates that Datis was slain at Marathon and that the Athenians refused to hand over his body, ref Photios I of Constantinople Photius the Great , Excerpts of Ctesias Persica , Paragraph 22, available online at http www.livius.org ct cz ctesias photius persica.html ref however this conflicts with Herodotus earlier analysis that Datis survived the battle ref Herodotus, Histories,I. 6.119 VI.94. ref Datis was originally called to duty alongside Artaphernes for the Greek invasion because Darius I had decided to temporarily relieve Mardonius of military service due to an injury he suffered in the Thrace Thracian campaign. Datis is mocked in Aristophanes play Peace , where Trygaeus exclaims Now is the time to sing as Datis did, as he masturbated at high noon, Oh pleasure oh enjoyment oh delights References Reflist Portal Ancient Near East External links http www.livius.org da dd datis datis.html Livius.org Datis Median topics Category Year of death missing Category Admirals Category Soldiers Category 5th century BC deaths Category Median people Category Achaemenid military leaders Category People of the Greco Persian Wars Category Battle of Marathon Category Year of birth unknown MEast mil bio stub ANE bio stub cs D tis de Datis el es Datis fa fr Datis hr Datis it Dati generale he la Datis no Datis pl Datis pt Datis ru sk Datis sh Datis fi Dati ... more details
Image Eudoxus.png thumb Graph of Kampyle of Eudoxus The Kampyle of Eudoxus Ancient Greek Greek , meaning simply curved line , curve is a curve , with a Cartesian equation of math x 4 x 2 y 2 math from which the solution x y 0 should be excluded, or, in polar coordinates , math r sec 2 theta ,. math This quartic curve was studied by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Eudoxus of Cnidus c. 408 BC c.347 BC in relation to the classical problem of doubling the cube . The Kampyle is symmetric about both the math x math and math y math axes. It crosses the math x math axis at math 1,0 math and math 1,0 math . It has inflection points at math pm sqrt 3 2 , pm sqrt 3 2 math four inflections, one in each quadrant . The top half of the curve is asymptotic to math x 2 frac12 math as math x to infty math , and in fact can be written as math y x 2 sqrt 1 x 2 x 2 frac12 sum n ge 0 C n 2x 2n math where math C n frac1 n 1 binom 2n n math is the math n math th Catalan number . See also List of curves References cite book author J. Dennis Lawrence title A catalog of special plane curves publisher Dover Publications year 1972 isbn 0 486 60288 5 pages 141 142 External links MathWorld urlname KampyleofEudoxus title Kampyle of Eudoxus geometry stub Category Curves ca C mpila d Eudoxe nl Kampyle van Eudoxus sl Evdoksova kampila ... more details
Hippotes ancient Greek Gr. lang grc can refer to a number of people from Greek mythology ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Schmitz first Leonhard authorlink title Hippotes editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 2 pages 495 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 1603.html ref Hippotes, father of Aeolus , the keeper of the Anemoi Winds in the Odyssey . He was a mortal king. ref Apollonius of Rhodes . iv. 778 ref Hippotes, a son of Phylas by Leipephilene , daughter of Iolaus , and a great grandson of Heracles . When the Heracleidae , on their invading the Peloponnesus , were encamped near Naupactus , Hippotes killed the seer Carnus , in consequence of which the army of the Heracleidae began to suffer very severely, and Hippotes by the command of an oracle was banished for a period of ten years. ref Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Pseudo Apollodorus , 2. 8. 3 ref ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias , Description of Greece 2. 4. 3, 13. 3 ref ref Conon mythographer Conon , Narrations 26. ref ref Scholiast ad Theocrit. v. 83 ref He seems to be the same as the Hippotes who was regarded as the founder of Cnidus in Caria . ref Diodorus Siculus , 5. 9, 53 ref ref John Tzetzes on Lycophron 1388 ref Hippotes, a son of Creon king of Corinth Creon , who accused Medea of the murder she had committed on his sister and his father. ref Diodorus Siculus , 4. 54. &c. ref ref Scholiast on Euripides , Medea 20 ref ref Hyginus , Fabulae , 26 ref References reflist 2 SmithDGRBM Category Greek mythology Category Greek mythology stubs Category Heracleidae Greek myth stub de Hippotes el fr Hippot s ru sr fi Hippotes ... more details
Damaspia from Old Persian J m spi ref Schmitt. ref was a queen of Persia , wife of king Artaxerxes I , and mother of Xerxes II , his legitimate heir. She was probably Persian. It is said that her mother was Queen Esther, wife of Xerxes I. She was also an only child by Esther and Damaspia followed the Hebrew God. According to the Ancient Greece Greek historian Ctesias of Cnidus , king Artaxerxes and his wife died the same day 424 BC , perhaps during a military expedition , and their corpses were carried to Persia . Xerxes succeeded his father, but was murdered not much later 423 BC by his half brother Sogdianus . The epitome made by Photios I of Constantinople Photius of Ctesias book is the only Source text source that mentions Damaspia by name. ref http www.livius.org ct cz ctesias photius persica2.html A747 47 ref Documents from Babylon dating in Artaxerxes reign, refer to certain Estate land estates as the house of the woman of the palace . This anonymous woman could be Damaspia, or the Queen Mother Amestris . ref Brosus, pp. 127, 129. ref Notes div class references small references div References div class references small Brosius, M Women in Ancient Persia, 559 331 BC , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. http www.questia.com library book women in ancient persia 559 331 bc by maria brosius.jsp Schmitt, R Damaspia , in Encyclopaedia Iranica . http www.iranica.com newsite articles v6f6 v6f6a044.html div Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Damaspia ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category 5th century BC women Category Persian queens consort Category 424 BC deaths Category Achaemenid women es Damaspia fa hr Damaspija pl Damaspia ... more details
The Troglodytae lang el lang grc or Troglodyti literally cave goers , were a people mentioned in various locations by many ancient Greek and Roman geographers and historians including Agatharcides , Strabo , Diodorus Siculus , Pliny the Elder Pliny , Tacitus , Josephus , etc. Greco Roman references The earlier references refer to Trogodytes ref Agatharchides of Cnidus, On the Erythraean Sea ref , which was evidently altered later by folk etymology from Greek tr gl , cave. They were usually placed in the desert along the African side of the Red Sea coast, from Berenice Troglodytica southward as far as Somalia. They have been connected with the modern Afar people Afar of Eritrea and neighboring peoples, as well as with the Tuareg people Tuareg and possibly the Tubu people Tubu . Hippolytus of Rome Chronicon of 254 AD identified the Troglodytes with the descendants of Phut Put . In Josephus Flavius Josephus alludes to a place he calls Troglodytis while discussing the account in Book of Genesis Genesis , that after the death of Sarah, Abraham married Keturah and fathered six sons who in turn fathered many more. Now, for all these sons and grandsons, Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies and they took possession of Troglodytis, and the country of Arabia Felix ... ref Josephus , Flavius, Antiquities , 1.15.1 ref The Troglodytis Josephus refers to here is generally taken to mean both coasts of the Red Sea. ref http books.google.com books?id TgCUWA 6 L4C&pg PA189&dq Troglodytis josephus&client firefox a Saint Jerome s Hebrew Questions on Genesis ref However, Josephus goes on to state that the descendants of one of these grandsons, Epher , invaded Libya , and that the name of Africa was thus derived from that of Epher. References Citations reflist Other sources Murray, G.W. and E.H. Warmington 1967 , Trogodytica The Red Sea Littoral in Ptolemaic Times , The Geographical Journal , Vol. 133, No. 1 March issue , pp 24 33, 29. See also wiktionary troglodyte I ... more details
Sonchis of Sais lang grc floruit fl. 594 BC was an Ancient Egypt Egyptian priest who is mentioned in Greek writings as relating the account of Atlantis . His status as a historical figure is a matter of debate. The Plato nic dialogues Timaeus dialogue Timaeus and Critias dialogue Critias , written around 360 BC, relate through the voice of Critias how the Athenian statesman Solon 638 558 BC traveled to Egypt and in the city of Sais encountered the priests of the goddess Neith . A very aged priest tells him that 9,000 years earlier, Athens had been in conflict with the great power of Atlantis , which was then destroyed in a catastrophe. blockquote ref name Timaeus Plato, http classics.mit.edu Plato timaeus.html Timaeus . ref Plato s dialogue does not mention a name for the priest, but Plutarch 46 120 AD , in his Parallel Lives Life of Solon identified the aged priest as Sonchis cquote Near Nilus mouth, by fair Canopus shores, and spent some time in study with Psenophis of Heliopolis, and Sonchis the Saite, the most learned of all the priests from whom, as Plato says, getting knowledge of the Atlantic story, he put it into a poem, and proposed to bring it to the knowledge of the Greeks. ref name Solon Plutarch, http classics.mit.edu Plutarch solon.html Life of Solon ref Plutarch gives a more detailed description on the Greek philosophers who visited Egypt and received advice by the Egyptian priests in his book Moralia On Isis and Osiris . Thus, Thales , Eudoxus of Cnidus Eudoxus , Solon , Pythagoras , some say Lycurgus of Sparta Lycurgus also and Plato , traveled into Egypt and conversed with the priests. Eudoxus was instructed by Chonupheus of Memphis, Egypt Memphis , Solon by Sonchis of Sais and Pythagoras by Oenuphis of Heliopolis ancient Heliopolis . ref Plutarch, http penelope.uchicago.edu Thayer E Roman Texts Plutarch Moralia Isis and Osiris A.html On Isis And Osiris , ch. 10. ref References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Sonchis Of Sais Category Atlantis C ... more details
Ptolemy possibly Pythagoras of Samos Sostratus of Cnidus Strabo Thales of Miletus Theon of Smyrna ... Autolycus of Pitane Ctesibius Diophantus Eratosthenes Euclid Eudoxus of Cnidus Eupalinos Galen ... more details
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