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Aeneas Tacticus  

David Whitehead

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature
Aeneas (Aineias) Tacticus, probably the Stymphalian general of the Arcadian koinon (see arcadian league) in 367 bce (Xen. Hell. 7. 3. 1); anyway the earlies (-surviving) and most ... More

Aeschines (2) Socraticus  

Michael Gagarin

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature, Philosophy
(4th cent. bce), of the *deme of Sphettus in Attica, a devoted follower of *Socrates, was present at his trial and death. He wrote speeches for the lawcourts and taught oratory, but fell ... More

alcoholism, Greek  

John Maxwell O'Brien and Barney Rickenbacker

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature, Greek Material Culture: Classical and Hellenistic
The ancient Greeks were unfamiliar with modern concepts of alcoholism, but they were well aware of self-destructive drinking and the effects of habitual drunkenness. In the Odyssey, *Homer makes a ... More

Appian  

Kai Brodersen

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature
Appian (Ἀππιανός) of Alexandria, Greek historian. Born in *Alexandria (1) at the end of the 1st cent. ce, he experienced the Jewish rising of ce 116/7, became a Roman citizen, moved to Rome as an ... More

Arrian, c. 86–160 CE  

Albert Brian Bosworth

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature, Philosophy
Born in *Nicomedia in *Bithynia, he held local office and pursued studies with *Epictetus, whose lectures he later published (allegedly verbatim) as the Discourses and summarized in the Encheiridion ... More

Asclepiades (4), of Myrleia in Bithynia, Greek author, 1st cent. BCE  

Peter Barr Reid Forbes and Kenneth S. Sacks

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Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature
Asclepiades (4), of Myrleia in *Bithynia (1st cent. bce), worked in Spain, and wrote on the history of Bithynia, and of scholarship; on *Homer and *Theocritus; and, as Atticist analogist, Περὶ ... More

biography, Greek  

Christopher Pelling

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature
1. Biography in antiquity was not a rigidly defined genre. Bios, ‘life’, or bioi, ‘lives’, could span a range of types of writing, from *Plutarch's cradle-to-grave accounts of statesmen to ... More

Callias (5), of Syracuse, Greek historian at court of Agathocles (1)  

Godfrey Louis Barber and Simon Hornblower

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature
Callias (5), of *Syracuse, lived at the court of *Agathocles (1), tyrant of Syracuse (316–289 bce), and wrote a history of his reign in 22 books. It so favoured Agathocles that Callias was ... More

education, Greek  

Frederick Arthur George Beck and Rosalind Thomas

Online publication date:
Jul 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature, Philosophy
Greek ideas of education (paideia), whether theoretical or practical, encompassed upbringing and cultural training in the widest sense, not merely schooling and formal education. The poets were ... More

epigraphy, Greek  

H. W. Pleket

Online publication date:
Mar 2016
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature, Greek Material Culture: Classical and Hellenistic
The study of inscriptions engraved on stone or metal in Greek letters. Coin-legends (see coinage, greek) are for the numismatist, whereas painted mummy-labels and ink-written texts on *ostraca, ... More

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