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===== Lycophron of Chalcis ===== | ===== Lycophron of Chalcis ===== | ||
- | Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem Alexandra | + | Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem __Alexandra__ |
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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 ===== | ===== 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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