Apollonius (12), of Tyana
Herbert Jennings Rose and Antony Spawforth
Apollonius (12), of Tyana (ἈπολλώνιοςὁΤυανεύς), a Neo-pythagorean holy man (see neopythagoreanism), conceivably the L. Pompeius Apollonius of an inscription from *Ephesus (C. P. Jones in Demoen and ...
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Nisus (2), mythical Trojan hero
Stephen J. Harrison
Nisus (2), Trojan hero in Virgil's Aeneid, son of Hyrtacus, sympathetically presented as the devoted older lover of the young and headstrong Euryalus. He helps Euryalus to victory in the ...
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Ovid, poet, 43 BCE–17 CE
Stephen Hinds
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 bce–17 ce), poet, was born at *Sulmo in the Abruzzi on 20 March. Our chief source for his life is one of his own poems, Tr. 4. 10. As the son of an old equestrian ...
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