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===== Acusilaus of Argos ===== | ===== Acusilaus of Argos ===== | ||
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===== Tyrtaeus ===== | ===== Tyrtaeus ===== | ||
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+ | Greek poet who composed verses in Sparta around the time of the Second Messenian War, the date of which isn't clearly established—sometime in the latter part of the seventh century BC. He is known especially for political and military elegies, exhorting Spartans to support the state authorities and to fight bravely against the Messenians, who had temporarily succeeded in wresting their estates from Spartan control. His verses mark a critical point in Spartan history, when Spartans began to turn from their flourishing arts and crafts and from the lighter verses of poets like Alcman (roughly his contemporary), | ||
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===== Xenophanes ===== | ===== Xenophanes ===== | ||
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+ | Greek philosopher, | ||
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===== Zeno ===== | ===== Zeno ===== | ||
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+ | Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic. He is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as " | ||
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