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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Crius (search)
of Sparta, crossed over to the island to apprehend those who had chiefly advised the measure, but was successfully resisted by Crius on the ground that he had not come with authority from the Spartan government, since his colleague Demaratus was not with him. Cleomenes, being obliged to withdraw, consoled himself by a play or the words *Kri=os and krio/s (a ram), advising the refractory Aeginetan to arm his horns with brass. as he would soon need all the defence he could get (Hdt. 6.50; comp. 5.75.) It was supposed that the resistance had been privately encouraged by Demaratus (6.61, 64), and on the deposition of the latter, and the appointment of Leotychides to the throne (6.65, 66), Cleomenes again went to Aegina with his new colleague, and, having seized Crius and others, delivered them into the custody of the Athenians. (6.73; comp. 85, &c.) Polycritus, the son of Crius, distinguished himself at the battle of Salamis, B. C. 480, and wiped off the reproach of Medism. (8.92.) [E.E]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Dema'rete (search)
Dema'rete （*Dhmare/th), daughter of Theron, tyrant of Agrigentum, was wife of Gelo, tyrant of Syracuse. She is said by Diodorus to have exerted her influence with Gelo to grant the Carthaginians peace on moderate terms after their great defeat at Himera, B. C. 480. In return for this service they sent her a crown of gold of the value of a hundred talents, with the produce of which, or more probably in commemoration of the event, she caused to be struck for the first time the large silver coins, weighing 10 Attic drachms or 50 Sicilian litrae, to which the name of Damaretion was given in her honour. (Diod. 11.26; Schol. in Pind. Ol. 2.1; Hesych. s. v. *Dhmare/tion; Pollux, 9.80; Annali dell'Ist. di Corrisp. Archeol. vol. ii. p. 81.) After the death of Gelo she married his brother and successor Polyzelus. (Schol. in Pind. Ol. 2.29.) [E.H.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Diodo'rus Siculus or Diodorus the Sicilian (search)
maining 23 books, treated of the history from the death of Alexander down to the beginning of Caesar's Gallic wars. Of this great work considerable portions are now lost. The first five books, which contain the early history of the Eastern nations, the Egyptians, Aethiopians, and Greeks, are extant entire; the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth books are lost; but from the eleventh down to the twentieth the work is complete again, and contains the history from the second Persian war, B. C. 480, down to the year B. C. 302. The remaining portion of the work is lost, with the exception of a considerable number of fragments and the Excerpta, which are preserved partly in Photius (Bibl. Cod. 244), who gives extracts from books 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, and 40, and partly in the Eclogae made at the command of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, from which they have successively been published by H. Stephens, Fulv. Ursinus, Valesius, and A. Mai. (Collect. Nova Script. ii. p. 1, &c., p. 568, &c.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Diony'sius or Diony'sius Scytobrachion (search)
34. Of MYTILENE, was surnamed Scytobrachion, and seems to have lived shortly before the time of Cicero, if we may believe the report that he instructed M. Antonius Gnipho at Alexandria (Suet. de Illustr. Gram. 7), for Suetonius expresses a doubt as to its correctness for chronological reasons. Artemon (apud Athen. xii. p. 415) states, that Dionysius Scytobrachion was the author of the historical work which was commonly attributed to the ancient historian Xanthus of Lydia, who lived about B. C. 480. From this it has been inferred, that our Dionysius must have lived at a much earlier time. But if we conceive that Dionysius may have made a revision of the work of Xanthus, it does not follow that he must needs have lived very near the age of Xanthus. Works Suidas attributes to him a metrical work, the expedition of Dionysus and Athena (h( *Dionu/sou kai\ *(Aqhna=s strati/a), and a prose work on the Argonauts in six books, addressed to Parmenon. He was probably also the author of the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ephialtes (search)
Ephialtes （*)Efia/lths). 1. A Malian, who, in B. C. 480, when Leonidas was defending the pass of Thermopylae, guided the body of Persians called the Immortals over the mountain path (the Anopaea), and thus enabled them to fall on the rear of the Greeks. Fearing after this the vengeance of the Spartans, he fled into Thessaly, and a price was set on his head by the Amphictyonic council. He ultimately returned to his country, and was put to death by one Athenades, a Trachinian, for some cause unconnected with his treason, but not further mentioned by Herodotus. (Her. 7.213, &c.; Paus. 1.4; Strab. i. p.20; Polyaen. 7.15
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Euri'pides (search)
, as others state it, of Phyle in the tribe Oeneis, was the son of Mnesarchus and Cleito, and was born in B. C. 485, according to the date of the Arundel marble, for the adoption of which Hartung contends. (Eur. Restitutus, p. 5, &c.) This testimony, however, is outweighed by the other statements on the subject, from which it appears that his parents were among those who, on the invasion of Xerxes, had fled from Athens to Salamis (IIerod. 7.41), and that the poet was born in that island in B. C. 480. (See Clinton, sub anno.) Nor need we with Miller (Greek Literature, p. 358) set it down at once as a mere legend that his birth took place on the very day of the battle of Salamis (Sept. 23), though we may look with suspicion on the way in which it was contrived to bring the three great tragic poets of Athens into connexion with the most glorious day in her annals. (Hartung, p. 10.) Thus it has been said that, while Euripides then first saw the light, Aeschylus in the maturity of manhood
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
tory. His name is generally coupled with that of Herminius (Dionys. A. R. 5.22, 23, 24, 36; Liv. 2.10, 11), and in the original lays they were the two warriors who stood beside Horatius Cocles in his defence of the bridge. [COCLES.] Mr. Macaulay (Lays of Anc. Rome, " Horatius," st. 30) preserves this feature of the story, and adopts Niebuhr's reason for it (Hist. Rome, i. p. 542), that one represented the tribe of the Ramnes, and the other that of the Titienses. It is worth notice, however, that at the battle of the Lake Regillus, where all the heroes meet together for the last time, the name of Herminius appears, but not that of Lartius. (Dionys. A. R. 5.3, &c.; Liv. 2.19, &c.) Lartius Flavus was consul a second time in B. C. 490 (Dionys. A. R. 7.68) ; warden of the city (5.75, 8.64); one of the five envoys sent to the Volscian camp when Coriolanus besieged Rome (8.72); and interrex for holding the consular comitia B. C. 480 (8.90), in which year he counselled war with Veii (ib. 91).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Gisco (search)
Gisco or GISGO (*Gi/skwn or *Ge/skwn). 1. A son of the Hamilcar who was killed in the battle of limera, B. C. 480. In consequence of the calamity suffered by the Carthaginians under his father's command, Gisco was compelled to quit his native city, and spend his life in exile at Selinus. He was father of the Hannibal who commanded the second Carthaginian expedition to Sicily, B. C. 409. (Diod. 13.43; Just. 19.2.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Glau'cias (search)
wing bronze statues at Olympia were also by Glaucias:--Philon, whose victory was recorded in the following epigram by Simonides, the son of Leoprepes,-- *Patri\s me\n *Korku/ra, fi/lwn d' o)/nom', ei)mi\ de\ *Glau/kou *Ui(o\s, kai\ ni/kh pu\c du/' o)lumpia/das: Glaucus of Carystus, the boxer, practising strokes (skiamaxw=n); and Theagenes of Thasos, who conquered Euthymus in boxing in Ol. 75, B. C. 480 (Paus. 6.6.2). Glaucias therefore flourished B. C. 488-480 (Paus. 6.9.3, 10.1, 11.3). [P.S]wing bronze statues at Olympia were also by Glaucias:--Philon, whose victory was recorded in the following epigram by Simonides, the son of Leoprepes,-- *Patri\s me\n *Korku/ra, fi/lwn d' o)/nom', ei)mi\ de\ *Glau/kou *Ui(o\s, kai\ ni/kh pu\c du/' o)lumpia/das: Glaucus of Carystus, the boxer, practising strokes (skiamaxw=n); and Theagenes of Thasos, who conquered Euthymus in boxing in Ol. 75, B. C. 480 (Paus. 6.6.2). Glaucias therefore flourished B. C. 488-480 (Paus. 6.9.3, 10.1, 11.3). [P.S]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Go'rgias (search)
Go'rgias （*Gorgi/as), of Leontini, a Chalcidian colony in Sicily, was somewhat older than the orator Antiphon (born in B. C. 480 or 479), and lived to such an advanced age (some say 105, and others 109 years), that he survived Socrates, though probably only a short time. (Quintil. iii. ]. § 9; comp. Xenoph. Anab. 2.6.16; H. Ed. Foss, de Gorgia Leontino, Halle, 1828, p. 6, &c. ; J. Geel, Histor. Crit. Sophistarum, in the Nova Acta Literaria Societatis Rheno-Trajectinae, ii. p. 14.) The accounts which we have of personal collisions between Gorgias and Plato, and of the opinion which Gorgias is said to have expressed respecting Plato's dialogue Gorgias (Athen. 11.505), are doubtful. We have no particular information respecting the early life and circumstances of Gorgias, but we are told that at an advanced age, in B. C. 427, he was sent by his fellow-citizens as ambassador to Athens, for the purpose of soliciting its protection against the threatening power of Syracuse. (Diod. 12.53; Pl
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