About the Greek philosopher the mythological characters called HippasusHippasus mythology Hippasus lang grc , H ppasos 5th century BC of Metapontum in Magna Graecia , was a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher . Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers . Life Little is known about the life of Hippasus. He may have lived in the late 5th century BC. He probably came from Metapontum in Italy Magna ..., In Nic. 10.20 De anima ap. Stobaeus, i.49.32 ref Doctrines Aristotle speaks of Hippasus as holding ... tells us that Hippasus believed that there is a definite time which the changes in the universe take ... cf. Simplicius, Commentary on the Physics , 23.33 24.4 ref According to one statement, Hippasus left ... s Phaedo , 108D ref Irrational numbers Hippasus is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence ... to have shocked them. However, the evidence linking the discovery to Hippasus is confused. Pappus ... he tells how it was Hippasus who drowned at sea for betraying the construction of the dodecahedron and taking ... to Hippasus, but whether he did or not is uncertain. ref Wilbur Richard Knorr, 1975 , The Evolution ... University Press ref Some modern scholars prefer to credit Hippasus with the discovery of the irrationality ... more emphatic and colourful tale. Some writers have Hippasus making his discovery while on board ... writer even has Pythagoras himself to his eternal shame sentencing Hippasus to death by drowning ... links http scienceworld.wolfram.com biography Hippasus.html Hippasus of Metapontum at scienceworld.wolfram.com ws Diogenes La rtius , s Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Book VIII Hippasus Life of Hippasus , translated by Robert Drew Hicks 1925 Presocratics Greek mathematics Category 5th century ... es Hipaso de Metaponto ext Ipasu eu Hipaso fa fr Hippase de M taponte ko id Hippasus is Hippasos it Ippaso di Metaponto he nl Hippasus ja pt Hipaso de Metaponto ro Hippasos ... more details
In Greek mythology , Hippasus is the name of nine characters. Hippasus , father of Hippomedon , by the nymph Ocyrrhoe , and also of Charops , Socus, Agelaus , and Pammon. ref Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy , http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus11.html 11.21 . ref ref Homer. The Iliad , http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad11.html 11.426 . ref ref Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy , http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus6.html 6.601 . ref Hippasus , son of Eurytus . He was one of the hunters of the Caledonian Boar . ref http www.theoi.com Ther HusKalydonios.html Theoi Project Calydonian Boar . ref Hippasus from the Pellene district of the Peloponnese, father of Actor mythology Actor , Iphitus , Asterion , Amphion , and Naubolus . ref Hyginus. Fabulae , http www.theoi.com Text HyginusFabulae1.html 14 . ref ref Statius. Thebaid , http www.theoi.com Text StatiusThebaid7.html 7.340 . ref Hippasus from Phlius opposed his fellow citizens, who wished to accede to the wishes of the Dorians Dorian Rhegnidas and make him their king. He and his fellow supporters fled to Samos Island Samos . Hippasus is the ancestor of the philosopher Pythagoras , Pythagoras being the son of Mnesarchus , the son of Euphranor , the son of Hippasus. ref Pausanias. Description of Greece , http www.theoi.com Text Pausanias2A.html 2.13.1 2.13.2 . ref Hippasus , father of Hypsenor, Demoleon, and Apisaon. ref Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy , http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus10.html 10.126 . ref ref Homer. The Iliad , http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad13.html 13.402 . ref ref Homer. The Iliad , http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad17.html 17.342 . ref Hippasus , a Centaur . ref http www.theoi.com Georgikos KentauroiThessalioi.html Theoi Project Kentauroi Thessalioi ref Hippasus , one of the sons of Priam . ref Hyginus. Fabulae , http www.theoi.com Text HyginusFabulae2.html 90 . ref Hippasus ... Eurytus . ref Apollodorus. The Library , http www.theoi.com Text Apollodorus2.html 2.7.7 . ref Hippasus ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Not to be confused with Ceyx , husband of Alcyone. See also Ceyx disambiguation . In Greek mythology, Ceyx was a king of Trachis in Thessaly . He received Herakles ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Paus 2e 1 2e32 2e6 1.32.6 , Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Apollod. http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Apollod 2e 2 2e7 2e6 2.7.6 , Apollod. http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Apollod 2e 2 2e7 2e7 2.7.7 ref , and Herakles s sons later fled to him. ref http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Apollod 2e 2 2e7 2e8 Apollod. 2.7.8 ref Some accounts make him Amphitryon s nephew, with Herakles building Trachis for him ref Apollod. ii. 7. 6, &c. ref . Muller ref Dor. ii. 11. 3, comp. i. 3. 5 ref supposes that the marriage of Ceyx and his connection with Heracles were the subjects of ancient poems. This Ceyx is father of the Hippasus mythology Hippasus who died fighting as an ally of Herakles. ref Apollod. 2.7.7 ref Notes references External links http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.04.0004 3Ahead 3D 232125 Perseus Encyclopaedia SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Ceyx Father Of Hippasus Category Greek mythology Greek myth stub ru uk ... more details
Ceyx may be In Greek mythology Ceyx , son of Eosphorus , husband to Alcyone . After whom is named Ceyx Neopaganism , son of Lucifer and the goddess Diana Ceyx kingfisher , a genus of kingfisher Halcyon is also a genus of kingfisher Ceyx father of Hippasus disambig ru uk ... more details
In Greek mythology , Leucippe from Greek white horse is the name of the following individuals One of the Minyades , three sisters who were driven by Dionysus to kill Hippasus mythology Hippasus , the son of Leucippe An Oceanid who was with Persephone when she was kidnapped by Hades A priestess of Apollo , daughter of Thestor mythology Thestor and Megara mythology , sister of Calchas and Theonoe The wife of Ilus and mother of Laomedon The wife of Thestius and mother of Iphicles , Prothous, and Cometes The wife of Laomedon and mother of his children, including Priam The wife of Euenor mythology and mother of Cleito. The couple were born of the soil. The heroine of The Adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon by Achilles Tatius . disambig Category Greek mythology br Leukippe de Leukippe fr Leucippe homonymie id Leukippe sr uk ... more details
In Greek mythology , Ocyrhoe or Ocyrrhoe refers to three characters. Ocyrhoe was a daughter of Chiron and Chariclo . Ocyrhoe was transformed into a horse because she told her father Chiron his exact fate. She revealed that he would forsake his immortality to be spared the agonizing pain of a serpent s poison. For this transgression, Ocyrhoe s ability to speak was taken. One might assume that she turned into a horse because her father was a centaur, and because she had long, auburn hair. Ocyrrhoe, one of the Oceanids . ref Hesiod. Theogony . ref Ocyrrhoe, a nymph . She was the mother, by Hippasus mythology Hippasus , of Charops , Socus , Apisaon , Agelaus , Pammon , and Hippomedon . ref Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy . ref Modern references The Centaur planetoid 52872 Okyrhoe is named after this figure. A character in The Mongoliad is named http mongoliad.com pedia Ocyrhoe Ochyroe . References reflist Greek deity stub Category Oceanids Category Nymphs Category Greek mythology bg el fr Ocyrho ru sr ... more details
unreferenced date July 2009 Agrionia was an Ancient Greece ancient Greece Greek religious festival in honor of Dionysus Agrionius . It was celebrated annually, especially at Orchomenus in Boeotia . According to Plutarch , agrionia was celebrated at night with only women accompanied by the priests of Dionysus, who often wore black garments. Women pretended to search for Dionysos and then declared that he has fled to the Muses and hidden there. After that they feasted and begun to present and solve riddles. According to legend, oleaia, the daughters of king Minyas of Orchomenus, who had despised the Dionysian rites, were seized with a desire to cannibalism eat human flesh . They cast lots to decide which of their children they would eat and selected Hippasus mythology Hippasus , son of Leucippe . Plutarch also say that the festival included a human sacrifice . The priest pursued virgin s, descendants of Minyas, that had gathered for the festival, captured one and killed her with a sword. This practice was later discontinued after bad omens. External links Wikisource1911Enc Citation Agrionia Category Festivals in ancient Boeotia Category Greek festivals of Dionysus ca Agri nia fr Agrionies ka pt Agrionia uk ... more details
In Greek mythology , the name Naubolus may refer to Naubolus of Phocis , son of Ornytus or of Hippasus ref Statius , Thebaid , 7. 354 ref , and King of Tanagra . By Perineike, daughter of Hippomachus, he became the father of the Argonaut Iphitos , ref Apollonius Rhodius , Argonautica , 1. 207, with scholia for the mother s name ref ref Argonautica Orphica , 144 ref and also of Antiphateia, who married Crisus . ref Scholia on Euripides , Orestes play Orestes , 33 ref Naubolus, father of Pylon, king of Oechalia . The latter s daughter Antiope was the mother, by Eurytus , of Iole , Didaeon, Toxeus, Clytius and another Iphitos, of whom the last two are also counted among the Argonauts. ref Hesiod , Catalogues of Women , fragment 79 Loeb edition, 1914 ref ref Hyginus , Fabulae, 14 ref Naubolus of Argos , who belonged to the lineage that linked the two figures of the name Nauplius Nauplius I Proetus Lernus Naubolus Clytoneus Nauplius II the Argonaut . ref Apollonius Rhodius , Argonautica , 1. 135 139 ref Naubolus, a Phaeacian , father of Euryalus . ref Homer , Odyssey , 8. 116 ref References reflist DEFAULTSORT Naubolus Mythology Category Greek mythology Greek myth stub ... more details
Agelaus or Agelaos is, in Greek mythology , the name of various individuals. Agelaus , or Agelaos , son of Damastor was a suitor of Penelope , killed by Odysseus . Agelaus was a common herdsman or slave of Priam who saved the life of the Trojan prince Paris , exposed as an infant on Mount Ida , owing to a prophecy that he would be the reason for the destruction of Troy , and brought him up as his own son. Agelaus , son of Maion . He was a Troy Trojan warrior and killed, during the Trojan War , by Ajax mythology Ajax . ref http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus3.html Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 3.247 ref Agelaus of Miletus , son of Hippasus mythology Hippasus . He fought against the Greeks as part of contingent of Nastes in the Trojan War and was killed by Meges . ref http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 1.300 ref Agelaus , son of Phradraon , and a Trojan warrior. He was killed during the war by Diomedes . ref http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad8.html Homer, The Iliad, 8.253 ref Agelaus , son of Evanor , and one of the attendants of Acamas during the Trojan War. ref http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus4.html Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 4.365 ref Agelaus , a Greek warrior slain by Hector during the Trojan War. ref http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad11.html Homer, The Iliad, 11.299 ref Agelaus , son of Heracles and Omphale , and ancestor of Croesus . In other sources this son is instead called Lamus ref http www.theoi.com Text Apollodorus2.html Apollodorus, The Library, 2.7.8 note 228 ref ref http www.theoi.com Text Ap2b.html 228 Classical E Text NOTES ON APOLLODORUS, BIBLIOTHECA 2b Bot generated title ref Agelaus , son of Temenus and descendant of Heracles. Agelaus, along with his brothers Eurypylus and Callias , hired men to kill his father, since he gave his favour to their sister Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes. When this was discovered, the people gave the throne to Deiphontes and Hyr ... more details
Ceyx father of Hippasus Ceyx was a king of Trachis in Thessaly, and a nephew of Amphitryon ... against King Eurystheus . Ceyx s son Hippasus accompanied Heracles on his campaign against King Eurytus of Oechalia , during which Hippasus was slain in battle. Ceyx of Trachis also had a daughter ... more details
Lysis of Taranto Taras lang el floruit fl. c. 5th century BC was a Magna Graecia Greek philosopher . His life is obscure. He was said to have been a friend and disciple of Pythagoras . After the persecution of the Pythagoreanism Pythagoreans at Crotone Croton and Metapontum he escaped and went to Thebes Greece Thebes , where he became the teacher of Epaminondas , by whom he was held in the highest esteem. ref Pausanias, ix. 13. 1 Aelian, Varia Historia , iii. .17 Diodorus, Exc. de Virt. et Vit. p. 556 Plutarch, de Gen. Socr. 8, 13, 14, 16 Diogenes La rtius, viii. 39 Nepos, Epam. 2 Iamblichus, Vit. Pyth. 35. ref There are, however, serious chronological difficulties with him being both a disciple of Pythagoras and the teacher of Epaminondas. Lysis was credited as the actual author of a work which was attributed to Pythagoras himself. ref Diogenes La rtius, viii. 7 ref Diogenes La rtius quotes from an undoubtedly spurious letter from Lysis to Hippasus as an authority for some statements concerning Damo philosopher Damo . ref Diogenes La rtius, viii. 42 ref References reflist Category 5th century BC Greek people Category 5th century BC philosophers Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category Ancient Greek political refugees Category Ancient Tarantines Category Ancient Thebes Category Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia ca Lisis fil sof de Lysis Pythagoreer el es Lisis de Tarento eu Tarentoko Lisis fr Lysis de Tarente it Liside he pt L sis de Tarento ... more details
Infobox planet minorplanet yes width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Hippasos symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer F. Borngen discovery site Tautenburg discovered December 10, 1991 designations yes mp name 17492 alt names 1991 XG1 named after Hippasus mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 5.4505677 perihelion 4.7495083 semimajor eccentricity 0.0687308 period 4206.8646215 avg speed inclination 29.27095 asc node 89.13489 mean anomaly 297.57978 arg peri 216.40998 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 10.7 17492 Hippasos 1991 XG1 is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on December 10, 1991 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg . External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 17492 Hippasos JPL Small Body Database Browser on 17492 Hippasos Reflist Minor planets navigator 17491 1991 UM3 17493 Wildcat Small Solar System bodies DEFAULTSORT Hippasos Category Jupiter Trojans Trojan camp Category Asteroids named from Greek mythology Category Discoveries by Freimut B rngen Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1991 Jupiter Trojan stub de 17492 Hippasos fa it 17492 Hippasos pl 17492 Hippasos ... more details
Pausanias , Description of Greece , 5. 1. 10, 8. 14. 6. ref Actor , son of Hippasus mythology Hippasus , one of the Argonauts . ref Apollodorus , Bibliotheca , 1. 9. 16 ref ref Hyginus , Fabulae ... more details
The Minyades lang el were three sisters in Greek mythology who were daughters of Minyas mythology Minyas , and the protagonists of a myth about the perils of neglecting the worship of Dionysus . ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Schmitz first Leonhard authorlink title Alcithoe editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 97 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0106.html ref Their names were Alcathoe or Alcithoe , Leucippe and Arsippe although instead of Arsippe , Claudius Aelianus calls the latter Aristippa , and Plutarch Arsino Ovid uses Leuconoe instead of Leucippe . ref Claudius Aelianus , Varia Historia 3. 42 ref ref Plutarch , Quaestiones Graecae 38 ref ref Ovid , Metamorphoses , 4. 168 ref Mythography At the time when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into Boeotia , and while the other women and maidens were reveling and ranging over the mountains in Bacchanalia Bacchic joy , these sisters alone remained at home, devoting themselves to their usual occupations, and thus profaning the days sacred to the god. Dionysus punished them by changing them into bats, and their work into vines. ref Ovid , Metamorphoses iv. 1 40, 390 415 ref Plutarch , Claudius Aelianus Aelian , and Antoninus Liberalis , though with some differences in the detail, relate that Dionysus appeared to the sisters in the form of a maiden, and invited them to partake in the Dionysian Mysteries . When the sisters declined the invitation, the god metamorphosed himself successively into a bull, a lion, and a panther, and the sisters were driven mad. In this state of madness, they were eager to honor the god, and Leucippe, who was chosen by lot to offer a sacrifice to Dionysus, gave up her own son Hippasus, whom the sisters tore to pieces. The sisters afterwards roamed over the mountains in a frenzy, until at last Hermes changed th ... more details
No No Yes Hippasus No No Yes Hipposidus No No Yes Hyperochus No No Yes Ilagus No No Yes Lysides No No Yes ... Binates Brissonius Chirodamas Chrysolaus Dolon Eresus Hero Hippasus Hipposidus Hyperochus Ilagus Lysides ... more details
to a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean possibly HippasusHippasus of Metapontum , ref cite journal title The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum author Kurt Von Fritz journal The Annals ... unit that could fit evenly into one of these lengths as well as the other. However, Hippasus, in the 5th ... magnitudes alogos , or inexpressible. Hippasus, however, was not lauded for his efforts according .... 32. ref Another legend states that Hippasus was merely exiled for this revelation. Whatever the consequence to Hippasus himself, his discovery posed a very serious problem to Pythagorean mathematics ... more details
Hellenistic philosophy is the period of Western philosophy that was developed in the Hellenistic civilization following Aristotle and ending with the beginning of Neoplatonism . Hellenistic schools of thought Pythagoreanism Pythagoreanism is the name given to the system of philosophy and science developed by Pythagoras , which influenced nearly all the systems of Hellenistic philosophy which followed. Two schools of Pythagorean thought eventually developed, one based largely on mathematics and continuing his line of scientific work, the other focusing on his more esoteric teachings, though each shared a part of the other. Pythagoras of Croton 570 495 BCE Hippasus 5th century BCE Sophism In Ancient Greece, the sophists were a category of teachers who specialized in using the tools of philosophy and rhetoric for the purpose of teaching aret excellence, or virtue predominantly to young statesmen and nobility. Protagoras 490 420 BCE Gorgias 485 380 BCE Antiphon person Antiphon 480 411 BCE Platonism Platonism is the name given to the philosophy of Plato , which was maintained and developed by his followers. The central concept was the Theory of forms the transcendent, perfect archetypes, of which objects in the everyday world are imperfect copies. The highest form was the Form of the Good , the source of being, which could be known by reason . In the 3rd century BC, Arcesilaus adopted philosophical skepticism skepticism , which became a central tenet of the school until 90 BC when Antiochus of Ascalon Antiochus added Stoic elements, rejecting skepticism. With the adoption of oriental mysticism in the 3rd century AD, Platonism evolved into Neoplatonism . Speusippus 407 339 BCE Xenocrates 396 314 BCE Arcesilaus 316 232 BCE Carneades 214 129 BCE Antiochus of Ascalon 130 68 BCE Plutarch 46 120 CE Peripateticism The Peripatetics was the name given to the philosophers who maintained and developed the philosophy of Aristotle . They advocated examination of the world to underst ... more details
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