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===== Anaxarchus of Abdera ===== | ===== Anaxarchus of Abdera ===== | ||
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+ | Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus. Together with Pyrrho, he accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia. The reports of his philosophical views suggest that he was a forerunner of the Greek skeptics. | ||
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===== Apollonius Rhodius ===== | ===== Apollonius Rhodius ===== | ||
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+ | Floruit first half of 3rd century BCE, is best known as the author of the Argonautica, | ||
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===== Archimedes ===== | ===== Archimedes ===== | ||
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+ | Greek mathematician, | ||
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===== Crates of Thebes ===== | ===== Crates of Thebes ===== | ||
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+ | Cynic philosopher. Crates gave away his money to live a life of poverty on the streets of Athens. He married Hipparchia of Maroneia who lived in the same manner that he did. Respected by the people of Athens, he is remembered for being the teacher of Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism. Various fragments of Crates' | ||
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===== Epicurus ===== | ===== Epicurus ===== | ||
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+ | Ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus' | ||
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+ | ===== Hecataeus of Abdera ===== | ||
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+ | Greek historian and sceptic philosopher who flourished in the 4th century BC. | ||
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===== Lycophron of Chalcis ===== | ===== Lycophron of Chalcis ===== | ||
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+ | Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem __Alexandra__ is attributed (perhaps falsely). | ||
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===== Manetho ===== | ===== Manetho ===== | ||
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+ | Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) who lived during the Ptolemaic era, approximately during the 3rd century BC. Manetho wrote the __Aegyptiaca__ (History of Egypt). His work is of great interest to Egyptologists, | ||
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===== Menander ===== | ===== Menander ===== | ||
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+ | Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He was the author of more than a hundred comedies, and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown but may well have been similarly spectacular. One of the most popular writers of antiquity, his work was lost in the Middle Ages and is known in modernity in highly fragmentary form, much of which was discovered in the 20th century. Only one play, __Dyskolos__, | ||
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===== Nausiphanes of Teos ===== | ===== Nausiphanes of Teos ===== | ||
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+ | Attached to the philosophy of Democritus, and was a pupil of Pyrrho. He had a large number of pupils, and was particularly famous as a rhetorician. Epicurus was at one time one of his hearers, but was unsatisfied with him, and apparently abused him in his writings. He also argued that the study of natural philosophy (physics) was the best foundation for studying rhetoric or politics. There is a polemic in Philodemus' | ||
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===== Polybius ===== | ===== Polybius ===== | ||
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+ | Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his work, __The Histories__, | ||
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+ | ===== Theocritus ===== | ||
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+ | Creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC. (A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasturage. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art and music that depicts such life in an idealized manner, typically for urban audiences. A pastoral is a work of this genre. An alternative word for pastoral as a genre, both in adjectival and noun form, is bucolic, from the Greek βουκόλος, | ||
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+ | ===== Theocritus of Chios ===== | ||
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