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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Bularchus (search)
Bularchus a very old painter of Asia Minor, whose picture representing the defeat of the Magnesians (Magnetum proelium, Plin. Nat. 35.34; Magnetum excidium, Ib. 7.39) is said to have been paid by Candaules, king of Lydia with so much gold as was required to cover the whole of its large surface. This is either a mistake of Pliny, since Candaules died in B. C. 716, and the only destruction of Magnesia that is known of took place after B. C. 676 (see Heyne, Art. Tempor. Opusc. v. p. 349); or, what is more probable. the whole story is fictitious, as Welcker has shewn. (Archiv für Philol. 1830, Nos. 9 and 10.) [W.I
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Terpander (search)
at " it is one of the most certain dates of the more * Der ältern Chronologie, not, as the English translator gives it, ancient chronology, as if Müllen meant the whole range of ancient chronology. ancient chronology, that in the 26th Olympiad (B. C. 676) musical contests were first introduced at the feast of Apollo Carneius [at Sparta], and at their first celebration Terpander was crowned victor." (Hist. Lit. Anc. Greece, vol. i. p. 150, vol. i. p. 268 of the German; comp. Dor. b. 4.6.1; and Mcomputation, have placed the institution of the Carneia at Ol. 16, a date which would agree well enough with that really given by Hellanicus. (See Car. Müller, Frag. Hist. vol. ii. p. 626.) On the whole, then, it seems probable that the date of B. C. 676 is not quite so certain as it has been represented. With respect to the other testimonies, that of Hellanicus, already referred to, is rendered some-what indefinite by the, at least partly, mythological character of Midas; but, if the date ha