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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ca'nachus (search)
having been carried to Ecbatana by Xerxes after his defeat in Greece, B. C. 479. Müller (Kunstblatt, 1821, N. 16) thinks, that this statue cannot have been executed before B. C. 494, at which time Miletus was destroyed and burnt by Dareius; but Thiersch (l.c.) shews that the colossus might very well have escaped the general ruin, and therefore needs not have been placed there after the destruction of the city. Finding that all indications point to the interval between O1. 60 and 68 (B. C. 540-508), he has given these 32 years as the time during which Canachus flourished. Thus the age of our artist coincides with that of Callon, whose contemporary he is called by Pausanias (7.18.6). He was likewise contemporary with Ageladas, who flourished about O1. 66 [AGELADAS]; for, together with this artist and with his own brother, Aristocles, he executed three Muses, who symbolically represented the diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic styles of Greek music. Besides these works, we find the follo
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Idanthyrsus (search)
Idanthyrsus 2. Another king of the Scythians, probably a descendant of the above. He was a son of Saulius, the brother and slayer of Anacharsis. When Dareius Hystaspis invaded Scythia, about B. C. 508, and the Scythians retreated before him, he sent a message to Idanthyrsus, calling upon him either to fight or submit. The Scythian king answered that, in flying before the Persians, he was not urged by fear, but was merely living the wandering life to which he was accustomed--that there was no reason why he should fight the Persians, as he had neither cities for them to take nor lands for them to ravage; but that if they would attempt to disturb the Scythian tombs where their fathers lay, they should see whether they would fight with them or not--that, as for submission, he paid that to none but the gods of Scythia, and that, instead of the required gifts of earth and water, he would send the invader such gifts as befitted him. A herald afterwards came to Dareius with the present of a
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lasus (search)
roleg. in Lycoph. p. 252, ed. Müller; comp. Schol. ad Pind. Ol. 13.25.) According to a scholiast on Aristophanes (Aristoph. Birds 1403), some ancient writers ascribed to him, instead of Arion, the invention of the cyclic choruses. (Comp. Suid. s. v. kukliodida/skalos.) A better account is given by another scholiast (Vesp. 1410) and Suidas (s. v. *Da=sos), that Lasus was the first who introduced dithyrambic contests, like those of the dramatic choruses. This seems to have been in Ol. 68, 1, B. C. 508. (Marm. Par. Ep. 46.) Putarch states (De Mus. p. 1141b. c.) that Lasus invented various new adaptations of music to dithyrambic poetry, giving it an accompaniment of several flutes, and using more numerous and more varied voices (or musical sounds, fqo/ggois). The change of form was naturally accompanied by a change in the subjects of the dithyramb. Suidas (s. v.) and the scholiast on Aristophanes (Aristoph. Wasps 1410) tell us that Lasus introduced e)ristikou\s lo/gous. From these stateme
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
nsuls was anxious to dedicate the temple on the Capitol, which Tarquin had left unfinished when he was driven from the throne; but the lot gave the honour to Horatius, to the great mortification of Publicola and his friends. [PULVILLUS.] Some writers, however, place the dedication of the temple two years later, B. C. 507, in the third consulship of Publicola, and the second of Horatius Pulvillus. (Dionys. A. R. 5.21; Tac. Hist. 3.72.) Next year, which was the second year of the republic, B. C. 508, Publicola was elected consul again with T. Lucretius Tricipitinus. In this year most of the annalists placed the expedition of Porsena against Rome, of which an account has been given elsewhere [PORSENA]. In the following year, B. C. 507, Publicola was elected consul a third time with M. Horatius Pulvillus, who had been his colleague in his first consulship, or according to other accounts, with P. Lucretius; but no event of importance is recorded under this year. He was again consul a fou
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tricipti'nus (search)
Tricipti'nus 2. T. Lucretius Triciptinus, T. F., consul in B. C. 508 with P. Valerius Publicola, in which year he fought against the Etruscans, who had attacked Rome under Porseina, and he is said by Dionysius to have been wounded in the battle. Dionysius, however, places the invasion of Porsena in the following year, and according represents Triciptinus as one of the generals of the Roman army under the consuls. (Liv. 2.8, 11; Dionys. A. R. 5.20, 22, 23.) Triciptinus wits consul a second time in B. C. 504 with P. Valerius Publicola, in which year the consuls carried on the war against the Sabines with success. (Liv. 2.16; Dionys. A. R. 5.40, foll.)