Hellanicus Of Lesbos

Hellanicus Of Lesbos

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Hellanicus of Lesbos (in Ancient Greek) (born in Mytilene on the isle of Lesbos in 490 BC) was an ancient Greek logographer who flourished during...
Niccolo Of Lesbos

Niccolo Of Lesbos

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Niccolo Gattilusio was the last Prince of Lesbos (1458-1462). A younger son of Prince Dorino, he deposed his elder brother Prince Domenico, threw...
Sappho

Sappho

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Sappho (Attic Greek "', Aeolic Greek "') was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. In history and poetry texts, she is...
Alcaeus

Alcaeus

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Alcaeus (Alkaios) of Mytilene (c. 620 BCE-6th century BCE), Greek lyric poet who supposedly invented the Alcaic verse; he was an older contemporary...

Theophrastus

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Theophrastus, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, was the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. All the biographical information we have of...

Terpander

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Terpander, of Antissa in Lesbos, was a Greek poet and citharode who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC. About the time of the Second...

Ibycus

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Ibycus, of Rhegium in Italy, was a Greek lyric poet. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic...

Polycrates

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Polycrates, son of Aeaces, was the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC. He took power during a festival of Hera with his brothers Pantagnotus...
Peter Green

Peter Green

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Peter Green (born 1924) is a British classical scholar noted for his "Alexander to Actium", a general account of the Hellenistic Age, and other...

Longus

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Longus was a Greek novelist and romancer, and author of "Daphnis and Chloe".