Aeneas Tacticus
David Whitehead
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 ...
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Aeschines (2) Socraticus
Michael Gagarin
(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 ...
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alcoholism, Greek
John Maxwell O'Brien and Barney Rickenbacker
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 ...
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Arrian, c. 86–160 CE
Albert Brian Bosworth
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 ...
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Asclepiades (4), of Myrleia in Bithynia, Greek author, 1st cent. BCE
Peter Barr Reid Forbes and Kenneth S. Sacks
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 ...
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biography, Greek
Christopher Pelling
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 ...
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Callias (5), of Syracuse, Greek historian at court of Agathocles (1)
Godfrey Louis Barber and Simon Hornblower
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 ...
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education, Greek
Frederick Arthur George Beck and Rosalind Thomas
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 ...
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epigraphy, Greek
H. W. Pleket
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, ...
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