other uses Athenaeus Ancient Greek Polytonic N Ath naios Naukrat t s, Latin Athenaeus Naucratita , of Naucratis in Egypt, Greeks Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius , but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus , who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor. Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives. Publications Athenaeus himself states that he was the author of a treatise on the thratta a kind of fish mentioned by Archippus and other comic poets and of a history of the Syrian ... works are referred to by Athenaeus one of his characters not necessarily to be identified with the historical ... Comedy alone. Were it not for Athenaeus, much valuable information about the ancient world would be missing ... named Athenaeus to his friend Timocrates of a banquet held at the house of Larentius, a wealthy ... Ulpian in Athenaeus dies a natural death. The complete version of the text, with the gaps noted ... . The encyclopaedist and author Sir Thomas Browne wrote a short essay upon Athenaeus ref s From a reading of Athenaeus ref which reflects a revived interest in the Banquet of the Learned amongst scholars ... . First patents Athenaeus described what may be considered the first patent s i.e. exclusive right ... reading Athenaeus and his world reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire ed. David Braund and John ... a reading of Athenaeus From a Reading of Athenaeus Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Athenaeus ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Athenaeus Category Ancient Greek writers Category Ancient Greek food writers Category ... fr Ath n e gl Ateneo de Naucratis id Athenaeus is A enajos it Ateneo di Naucrati la Athenaeus Naucratita nl Athenaeus van Naucratis ja no Athenaios pt Ateneu ru sk Ath naios z Naukratidy ... more details
Athenaeus can mean Athenaeus, an officer of Antigonus I Monophthalmus in the Third War of the Diadochi who led a campaign against the Nabataeans in 312 BC Athenaeus, son of Attalus I Athenaeus musician , Greek composer who flourished 128 BC Athenaeus Mechanicus , a Peripatetic writer of the 1st century BC, author of On Machines Athenaeus of Attalia , physician of the Pneumatist School who practiced at Rome in the 1st century AD Athenaeus , of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD disambig de Athenaios Begriffskl rung ru uk ... more details
Athenaeus Mechanicus is the author of a book on siegecraft , On Machines lang grc . He is identified by modern scholars with Athenaeus of Seleucia , a member of the Peripatetic school active in the mid to late 1st century BC, at Rome and elsewhere. ref name Cuomo Serafina Cuomo, review of Gatto 2010, http bmcr.brynmawr.edu 2010 2010 11 35.html Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.11.35 ref ref name Campbell Duncan B. Campbell, review of Whitehead and Blyth 2004, http bmcr.brynmawr.edu 2005 2005 07 63.html Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.63 ref Life Strabo mentions a contemporary of his, Athenaeus of Seleucia, a Peripatetic philosopher . ref Strabo http soltdm.com sources mss strab 14.htm b014005004 14.5.4 ref He was for some time the leading demagogue in his native city, but afterwards came to Rome and became acquainted with Lucius Licinius Varro Murena . On the discovery of the plot which the latter, with Fannius Caepio , had entered into against Augustus , Athenaeus accompanied him in his flight. He was retaken, but pardoned by Augustus, as there was no evidence of his having taken a more active part in the plot. ref name DGRBM William Smith lexicographer William Smith ... mechanicians cited as sources by Athenaeus are Agesistratus, Diades of Pella , and Philo of Byzantium ... on bad practice, a section on Athenaeus own innovations, and an epilogue emphasizing preparation for war as a deterrent, and defending Athenaeus own record against unnamed critics. ref name Campbell The work is technical but not without signs of Athenaeus philosophical culture He comes across ... expert to devise new machines, and to describe old ones accurately. ref name Cuomo Much of Athenaeus ... , draws on Athenaeus as a source. Editions Carl e Wescher, Poliorc tique des Grecs . Paris, 1867 ... Klasse , neue Folge, 12 5. Berlin, 1912. David Whitehead, P.H. Blyth, Athenaeus Mechanicus, On Machines ... note . Aio 567. Roma Aracne editrice, 2010. ISBN 9788854831025 Notes reflist DEFAULTSORT Athenaeus ... more details
Athenaeus, son of Athenaeus was an Ancient Greece ancient Greek composer. Athenaeus Greek was an Athens Athenian musician who flourished around 138 28 BC, when he composed the Delphic Hymns First Delphic Hymn . Although it was long thought that the composer of the First Hymn was merely an Athenian , careful reading of the inscription shows that it cannot be the ethnic Athena os from Athens , but rather names Ath naios Athena ou Athenios son of Athenios as the composer B lis 1992, 48 49 and 53 54 . Sources B lis, Annie ed. . 1992. Corpus des inscriptions de Delphes , vol. 3 Les Hymnes Apollon . Paris De Boccard. ISBN 2 86958 051 7 P hlmann, Egert, and Martin L. West eds. . 2001. Documents of Ancient Greek Music The Extant Melodies and Fragments . Oxford Clarendon Press. ISBN 0 19 815223 X Ancient Greece bio stub Category Ancient Athenians Category 2nd century BC Greek people Category Ancient Greek composers ... more details
Athenaeus of Attalia 1st century AD , was a physician , and the founder of the Pneumatic school of medicine. He was born in Cilicia , at Attalia according to Galen , ref Galen, De Element. ex Hippocr. , i. 6. vol. i Defin. Med. , prooem. vol. xix De Trem. Palpit. , etc. c. 6. vol. vii. De Differ. Puls. , iv. 10. vol. viii. ref or at Tarsus city Tarsus according Caelius Aurelianus . ref Caelius Aurelianus, De Morb. Acut. , ii. 1 ref He was the tutor to Theodorus of Attalia Theodorus , ref Diogenes Laertius, ii. 104 ref and appears to have practised medicine at Rome with great success. He appears to have written extensively, as the twenty fourth volume of one of his works is quoted by Galen, ref Galen, De Caus. Symptom. , ii. 3. vol. vii. ref and the twenty ninth by Oribasius . ref Oribasius, Coll. Medic. , ix. 5 ref Nothing, however, remains but the titles his chief work being , and some fragments preserved by Oribasius. ref Oribasius, Coll. Medic. , i. 2, v. 5, ix. 5. 12 ref Galen gives the following report blockquote Athenaeus of Attaleia ... founded the medical school known as the Pneumatists. It suits his doctrine to speak of a containing cause in illness since he bases himself upon the Stoics and he was a pupil and disciple of Posidonius ref Taken literally rather than as indicating an acquaintance with Posidonius through his works Vivian Nutton, Ancient Medicine , p. 203 , this would place Athaenaeus in the 1st century BC instead of the 1st century AD. Galen s dating is defended by Kudlien, Hermes 90 1962 , pp. 419ff, Realencyclop die der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft RE Suppl. XI pp. 1097ff, cited by I.G. Kidd Posidonius vol. 3, http books.google.com books?id krC5b4VOftsC&lpg PA45&dq 22athenaeus 20of 20attaleia 22&pg PA45 v onepage&q 22athenaeus 20of 20attaleia 22&f false p. 45 T51 . ref ... Athenaeus three types are as follows the first consists ... 20attaleia 22&f false 335 ref blockquote References reflist Sources SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Athenaeus ... more details
Nicias lang el of Nicaea city Nicaea , was a biographer and historian of ancient Greek philosophy Greek philosophers . Nothing is known about his life, he may have lived in the 1st century BC or AD. He is repeatedly referred to by Athenaeus . His principal work seems to have been a Successions of Philosophers Successions lang el , ref Athenaeus, vi. 191, xiii. 591 ref a history of the various schools of philosophy. Athenaeus also mentions a work On the Philosophers lang el , ref Athenaeus, iv. 483 ref A third work, a History of Arcadia lang el is also referred to, ref Athenaeus, xiii. 609 ref but whether it is by this Nicias is unclear. Notes reflist Category Ancient Greek biographers Category Roman era Greek historians Category People from Bithynia Category Historians from Roman Anatolia ca N cies de Nicea ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Diphilus , lang el , a Ancient Greek medicine Greek physician of Siphnus , one of the Cyclades , who was a contemporary of Lysimachus , king of Thrace , about the beginning of the 3rd century BC. ref Athenaeus, ii. p. 51 ref He wrote a work entitled, On Diet fit for Persons in good and bad Health , ref Athenaeus, iii. p. 82 ref which is frequently quoted by Athenaeus , but of which nothing remains but the short fragments preserved by him. ref Athenaeus, ii. p. 51, 54, 55, 56, etc. ref Notes reflist SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Diphilus Category 3rd century BC Greek people Category Ancient Greek physicians ca D fil metge la Diphilus Siphnius hu Diphilosz orvos ... more details
Terpsion lang el 5th 4th century BCE of Megara , was one of the disciples of Socrates . ref Suda, Socrates ref According to Plato , he was present at the death of Socrates. ref Plato, Phaedo , 59c ref He appears in the prologue of Plato s Theaetetus dialogue Theaetetus as a friend of Euclid of Megara . ref Plato, ws s Theaetetus Theaetetus ref Plutarch also refers to him. ref Plutarch, de Gen. Socr. ref Athenaeus mentions a Terpsion as the first author of a Gastronomy , ref Athenaeus, viii. 337 ref giving advice as to the food from which it was advisable to abstain. A proverb of his is recorded eat now a tortoise s flesh or leave it alone , of which Athenaeus preserves more than one reading. ref Athenaeus, viii. 337 cf. Suda, 85 ref Notes reflist Category 4th century BC Greek people Category Ancient Megarians Category Pupils of Socrates ca Terpis sk Terpsion z Megar ... more details
Other people2 Ammonius disambiguation Ammonius of Athens lang el sometimes called Ammonius the Peripatetic was a Philosophy philosopher who taught in Athens in the 1st century. He was a teacher of Plutarch , who praises his great learning, ref Plutarch, Symp. , iii. 1. ref and introduces him discoursing on religion and sacred rites. ref Plutarch, Symp. , ix. 15. ref Plutarch wrote a biography of him which is no longer extant. From the information supplied by Plutarch, Ammonius was clearly an expert in the works of Aristotle , but he may have nevertheless been a Platonist philosopher rather than a Peripatetic school Peripatetic . He may be the Ammonius of Lamprae in Attica quoted by Athenaeus ref Athenaeus, Deipnosophists , xi. ref as the author of a book on altars and sacrifices lang el . Athenaeus also mentions a work on Athenian courtesans lang el as written by an Ammonius. ref Athenaeus, Deipnosophists , xiii. ref References reflist DEFAULTSORT Ammonius of Athens Category 1st century philosophers Category Middle Platonists Category Roman era Peripatetic philosophers Category Roman era Athenian philosophers ca Amm nios de Lampres de Ammonios Lehrer Plutarchs fr Ammonios d Ath nes is Ammon os fr A enu it Ammonio l Egiziano pl Ammonios z Egiptu ... more details
For the Stoic philosopher, also from Seleucia Diogenes of Babylon Diogenes of Seleuceia 2nd century BCE was an Epicurean philosopher, who has sometimes been confused with Diogenes of Babylon , who was also a native of Seleucia. He lived at the court of Seleucid Empire Syria , and was friends with king Alexander Balas , the supposed son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes Antiochus Epiphanes . Athenaeus relates that Diogenes asked the king for a golden crown and a purple robe so that he could represent himself as the priest of Virtue. The king, apparently, agreed, but Diogenes subsequently gave the crown and robe to a female singer he was in love with, and the king hearing of this, summoned the girl to a banquet wearing the robe and crown, to the general mirth of the other guests. ref name athenaeus Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae , v. 211 ref After Alexander was pushed off the throne c. 146 BCE, Diogenes was put to death, because Antiochus VI Dionysus Antiochus , who succeeded Alexander in the kingdom, could not tolerate the abusive language of this Diogenes. ref name athenaeus Notes reflist Category 140s BC deaths Category 2nd century BC philosophers Category Epicurean philosophers Category Hellenistic era philosophers from Syria ca Di genes de Sel ucia ... more details
For other persons named Phila, see Phila Phila , a daughter of Demetrius I of Macedon and Lamia of Athens . References Athenaeus xiii. p. 577, c. Category Ancient Macedonian individuals Category Ancient Athenians ca Fila filla de Poliorcetes ... more details
Nicarete lang el floruit fl. c. 300 BCE of Megara was a philosopher of the Megarian school . She is stated by Athenaeus to have been a hetaera of good family and education, and to have been a disciple of Stilpo . ref Athenaeus, xiii. 596e ref Diogenes La rtius states that she was Stilpo s Mistress lover mistress , though he had a wife . ref Diogenes La rtius, ii. 114. ref Notes reflist SmithDGRBM Megarian philosophy Category 4th century BC Greek people Category Ancient Greek women philosophers Category Ancient Megarians Category Courtesans of antiquity Category Megarian philosophers ca Nicareta de M gara ... more details
Poseidonius Greek polytonic was a Macedon ian military engineer of Alexander the Great. See also Polyidus of Thessaly Diades of Pella engineer stub References Greek and Roman Siege Machinery 399 Bc Ad 363 page 6 By Duncan B. Campbell ISBN 1841766054 Athenaeus Mechanicus, On Machines Peri M chan mat n Page 85 By Athenaeus, David Whitehead, P. H. Blyth ISBN 3515085327 Who s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel ISBN 9781405112109 Category Engineers of Alexander the Great Category Ancient Macedonian scientists Category Ancient Greek engineers Category Alexander the Great Category Ancient Greek military engineers Category Mechanicians in Macedonian army ... more details
which Athenaeus cites a criticism on certain musicians . ref Athenaeus, xiv. ref Natural History A work On Plants is repeatedly quoted by Athenaeus, and frequently in connection with the work of Theophrastus on the same subject, to which, therefore, it may have been a supplement. ref Athenaeus, ii., ix. ref The fragments quoted by Athenaeus are sufficient to give us some notion of the contents of the work ... by Athenaeus. ref Athenaeus, viii. comp. Eustathius, p. 35, 18 Clement of Alexandria, Stromata , i. Plutarch, Solon , 14, 32, Themistocles , 1, 7, 73 Suda, Phanias Athenaeus, ii. ref It was either ... several works. One of these was called On the Tyrants in Sicily . ref Athenaeus, i., vi. ref Another ... the tyrant of Herakleia . ref Athenaeus, iii., x. Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata , 7. ref Literature Concerning literary history two works of Phanias are mentioned. In On Poets , which is quoted by Athenaeus, ref Athenaeus, viii. ref he seems to have paid particular attention to the Athenian musician ... in Imperial times, such as Athenaeus and pseudo Plutarch, and ultimately supplied much material ... more details
Lynceus of Samos Ancient Greek language Ancient Greek Polytonic brother of the historian Duris of Samos ref Suda , http www.stoa.org sol bin search.pl?db REAL&search method QUERY&login guest&enlogin guest&user list LIST&page num 1&searchstr lynceus&field hw eng&num per page 100 Lynceus ref , was a classical Greek author of comedies, letters and humorous anecdotes. He lived in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC and was a pupil of Theophrastus ref Athenaeus , Deipnosophists , http www.attalus.org old athenaeus4.html 128 4.128 . ref . His works, especially his letters and the essay Shopping for Food , show a special interest in gastronomy . He was also the addressee of an important letter by Hippolochus on dining in Macedon ref Athenaeus , Deipnosophists , http www.attalus.org old athenaeus4.html Book 4 . ref . He would be practically unknown if it were not for numerous quotations from his works in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus . As a comedy author Lynceus is classed among the writers of Athenian New Comedy , and the single surviving fragment from his play Kentauros The Centaur , as quoted by Athenaeus 131f , appears in the standard collections of comic fragments. It is a scene set at Athens in which a dinner menu is discussed with reference to the guests cities of origin and probable food preferences. The only collection of the fragments from Lynceus s prose works is in Andrew Dalby s paper published in 2000. References reflist Bibliography Andrew Dalby, Lynceus and the anecdotists in Athenaeus and his world reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire ed. David Braund, John Wilkins Exeter University of Exeter Press, 2000 pp. 372 394. R. Kassel and C. Austin, editors, P C G Poetae comici Graeci . Berlin De Gruyter, 1983 . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category Ancient Greek food writers Category Ancient Samians Category Year of ... more details
About a wife of Socrates one of the figures in Greek mythology Myrto mythology File Blommendae, Reyer Jacobsz. van Xantippe Dousing Socrates c. 1655.jpg thumb right Socrates and his two wives. Painting by Reyer van Blommendael Myrto lang el 5th century BC was, according to some accounts, a wife of Socrates . The original source for the claim that she was Socrates wife appears to have been a work by Aristotle called On Being Well Born , ref name athenaeus Athenaeus, xiii. 555D 556A ref ref name plutarch Plutarch, Aristides , xxvii. 3 4 ref ref name diog Diogenes La rtius, ii. 26 ref although Plutarch expresses doubt that the work is genuine. She was apparently the daughter, ref name diog or, more probably, the granddaughter of Aristides . ref name plutarch Although Diogenes La rtius describes Myrto as Socrates second wife living alongside Xanthippe , Myrto was presumably a common law wife , ref Luis E. Navia, 1985 , Socrates, the man and his philosophy , page 78 ref and Plutarch describes Myrto as merely living together with the sage Socrates, who had another woman but took up this one as she remained a widow due to her poverty and lacked the necessities of life. ref name plutarch Athenaeus and Diogenes La rtius report that Hieronymus of Rhodes attempted to confirm the story by pointing to a temporary decree the Athenians passed quote For they say that the Athenians were short of men and, wishing to increase the population, passed a decree permitting a citizen to marry one Athenian woman and have children by another and that Socrates accordingly did so. Diogenes La rtius, ii. 26 Neither Plato nor Xenophon mention Myrto, and not everyone in ancient times believed the story according to Athenaeus, Panaetius refuted those who talk about the wives of Socrates. ref name athenaeus Notes reflist Category 5th century BC Greek people Category Ancient Athenian women Category Relatives of Socrates de Myrto ... more details
dablink For the cookbook see Apicius . For other people named Apicius see Apicius disambiguation According to the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus , Apicius is the name of a cook who found a way of packing fresh oyster s to send to the emperor Trajan while he was on campaign in Mesopotamia around 115 AD. The information comes by way of the Epitome or summary of the Deipnosophists , since the full text of this part of Athenaeus s work does not survive. If the information is correct, this is the third known Roman food specialist who was named Apicius, the earliest being the luxury loving Apicius 1st century BC Apicius of the 1st century BC. The late Roman cookbook Apicius gives a recipe for preserving oysters. This is possibly the only detail in which the cookbook has a relationship with historical information about any of the people named Apicius. Sources Epitome of Athenaeus http www.attalus.org old athenaeus1.html 7 1.7d Apicius 1.12 Bibliography Citation surname Dalby given Andrew title Food in the ancient world from A to Z publisher Routledge place London, New York year 2003 ISBN 0415232597 , p. 17 Category Roman chefs de Apicius 2. Jahrhundert fr Apicius Trajan ... more details
for others with this name Aeschylus disambiguation Aeschylus ancient Greek Gr. polytonic of Alexandria was an epic poetry epic poet who must have lived before the end of the 2nd century, and whom Athenaeus calls a well informed man. One of his poems bore the title Amphitryon , and another Messeniaca. A fragment of the former is preserved in Athenaeus. ref Athenaeus , xiii. p. 599 ref According to Zenobius , ref Zenobius , v. 85 ref he had also written a work on proverb s. ref Citation last Schmitz first Leonhard author link contribution Aeschylus 2 editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 44 publisher place year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0053.html ref References reflist Poet stub Ancient Greece bio stub SmithDGRBM Category Roman era Alexandrians Category Ancient Greek epic poets Category Ancient Greek grammarians Category 2nd century poets ... more details
For the athlete Philinus of Cos athlete Philinus of Cos lang el 3rd century BC was a Ancient Greek medicine Greek physician . He was the reputed founder of the Empiric school . He was a pupil of Herophilus , a contemporary of Bacchius of Tanagra Bacchius , and a predecessor of Serapion of Alexandria Serapion . ref Pseudo Galen, Introd. , c. 4, vol. xiv. ref He wrote a work on part of the Hippocratic collection directed against Bacchius, ref Erotianus, Lex. Hippocr. in v. Amben ref and also one on botany , ref Athenaeus, xv. p. 681, 682 ref neither of which has survived. It is perhaps this later work that is quoted by Athenaeus , ref Athenaeus, xv. 28. p. 681, 682 ref Pliny the Elder Pliny , ref Pliny, H. N. xx. 91, and Index to books xx. and xxi. ref and Andromachus physician Andromachus . ref Andromachus, ap Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. , vii. 6, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 13, vol. xiii. ref References reflist Sources SmithDGRBM Category Ancient Greek physicians Category 3rd century BC Greek people ca Fil de Cos de Philinos von Kos hu Philinosz orvos fi Filinos Koslainen ... more details
dablink For other uses, see Python Python of Catana was a dramatic poet of the time of Alexander the Great Alexander , whom he accompanied into Asia, and whose army he entertained with a satyric drama , called Agen polytonic when they were celebrating the Dionysia on the banks of the Hydaspes . The drama was in ridicule of Harpalus and the Athenians fragments of it are preserved by Athenaeus . Identification of the poet with Python of Byzantium , the highly regarded orator in the service of Philip II of Macedon Philip II , is unlikely. See also Glycera courtesan Harpalus References Who s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel ISBN 978 1 4051 1210 9 SmithDGRBM External links http books.google.com books?id g98IAAAAQAAJ&pg PA935&dq Athenaeus Python Catana Deipnosophists of Athenaeus http www.toxolyros.gr index.php?option com content&task view&id 5771&Itemid 853 Ancient Greece writer stub Category Poets of Alexander the Great Category Sicilian Greeks Category Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights ca Pit de Catana ... more details
About the lake Lake Volvi the mantis genus Bolbe genus In Greek mythology , Bolbe Lang el was an extremely beautiful lake goddess or nymph who dwelled in a Thessalia n lake of the same name modern Lake Volvi . She was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys mythology Tethys ref http www.theoi.com Potamos Potamoi.html Theoi Project Potamoi Bolbe is included on the list of river gods ref . Like other lake gods and goddesses, Bolbe s offspring were Limnades who are Nymphs living in fresh water lakes. According to Athenaeus , Bolbe was the mother of Olynthus mythology Olynthus by Heracles ref Athenaeus , http penelope.uchicago.edu Thayer E Roman Texts Athenaeus 8A .html Banquet of the Learned , 8. 334e ref . References reflist Category Sea and river goddesses Category Oceanids Category Greek mythology Category Greek goddesses Greek deity stub sr sv Bolbe tr Bolbe ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Nicanor Latin lang el Nikan r or Nikanor of Cyrene, Libya Cyrene was an ancient scholar who lived in the Hellenistic period . No works of his survive, but he is mentioned as the author of a work called Changes of names . In the mention of him by Stephanus of Byzantium , older texts of Stephanus appear to give Nicanor the surname Leandrios more recent editions correct the text to saying that Nicanor is quoting from another author named Maiandrios . Nicanor is quoted as having discussed the variation between the names Sardis Sardeis and Hyd Stephanus Melikert s and Glaukos Athenaeus and the founding of the city of Thebes, Egypt Thebes in Egypt scholia on Apollonius . References Stephanus of Byzantium Ethnica 645.14 16 s.v. Athenaeus Deipnosophistae vii 47 scholia on Apollonius Argonautica 4.262 SmithDGRBM Category Cyrenean Greeks Category Ancient Greek grammarians ca Nic nor escriptor de Nikanor aus Kyrene ... more details
orphan date January 2009 otheruses Adrastus disambiguation Adrantus , or Ardrantus or Adrastus , was a contemporary of Athenaeus who wrote a commentary in five books upon the work of Theophrastus , entitled polytonic , to which he added a sixth book upon the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle . ref Athenaeus , xv. p. 673 e. with Schweighauser s note ref ref Citation last Smith first William author link William Smith lexicographer contribution Adrantus editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 20 publisher place Boston year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0029.html ref References reflist Sources SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Adrantus Category Ancient Greek essayists ca Adrantos ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Other people2 Chrysogonus Chrysogonus was a celebrated Athenian player on the flute, who dressed in a sacred robe Pythian pythike Stole vestment stole played to keep the rowers in time, when Alcibiades made his triumphal entry into the Piraeus on his return from banishment in 407 BC . From a conversation between the father of Chrysogonus and Stratonicus of Athens Stratonicus , reported by Athenaeus , it seems that Chrysogonus had a brother who was a dramatic poet. Chrysogonus himself was the author of a poem or drama entitled Politeia , which some attributed to Epicharmus . References SmithDGRBM Athenaeus xii. p. 353, d., viii. p. 350, e., xiv. p. 648, d. reflist Category Ancient Greek musicians Category Ancient Greek poets Category Ancient Athenians Category 5th century BC poets Ancient Greece writer stub Greece poet stub ca Crisog cantant ... more details
Hicesius , lang el , a Ancient Greek medicine Greek physician , who lived probably at the end of the 1st century BC, as he is quoted by Crito physician Crito , ref ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. , v. 3, vol. xiii. ref and lived shortly before Strabo . He was a follower of Erasistratus , and was at the head of a celebrated medical school established at Smyrna . ref Strabo, xii. ref He is several times quoted by Athenaeus , who says that he was a friend of the physician Menodorus ref Athenaeus, ii. 59 ref and also by Pliny the Elder Pliny , who calls him a physician of no small authority. ref Pliny, H. N. , xxvii. 14 ref There are extant two coins struck in his honour by the people of Smyrna. Notes reflist SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Hicesius Category 1st century BC Greek people Category Ancient Greek physicians ca Hicesi metge hu Ik sziosz ... more details
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