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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 2, chapter 15 (search)
our divisions of the Cephallenians, dedicated a statue of Timoptolis, an Elean, the son of Lampis. These Paleans were of old called Dulichians. There is also a statue set up of Archidamus the son of Agesilaus, and of some man or other representing a hunter. There is a statue of Demetrius, who made an expedition against Seleucus and was taken prisoner in the battle, and one of Antigonus the son of Demetrius; they are offerings, you may be sure, of the Byzantines. At the thirty-eighth Festival628 B.C. Eutelidas the Spartan won two victories among the boys, one for wrestling and one for the pentathlum, this being the first and last occasion when boys were allowed to enter for the pentathlum. The statue of Eutelidas is old, and the letters on the pedestal are worn dim with age. After Eutelidas is another statue of Areus the Lacedaemonian king, and beside it is a statue of Gorgus the Elean. Gorgus is the only man down to my time who has won four victories at Olympia for the pentathlum, besi
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Aristo'xenus (search)
Aristo'xenus （*)Aristo/cenos). 1. Of Selinus in Sicily, a Greek poet, who is said to have been the first who wrote in anapaestic metres. Respecting the time at which he lived, it is expressly stated that he was older than Epicharnus, from about B. C. 540 to 445. (Schol. ad Aristoph. Plut. 487; Hephaestion, Enchirid. p. 45, ed. Gaisf.) Eusebius (Chron. p. 333, ed. Mai) places him in Ol. 29 (B. C. 664), but this statement requires some explanation. If he was born in that year, he cannot have been a Selinuntian, as Selinus was not founded tillabout B. C. 628. But Aristoxenus may perhaps have been among the first settlers at Selinus, and thus have come to be regarded as a Selinuntia
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Eute'lidas (search)
Eute'lidas （*Eu)teli/das), a Lacedaemonian who gained a prize at Olympia in wrestling and in the pentathlon of boys, in B. C. 628 (Ol. 38), which was the first Olympiad in which the pentathlon, and the second in which wrestling was performed by boys. (Paus. 5.9.1, 6.15.4, &c.) [L.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sappho (search)
or that the courtezan's name was Doricha (comp. Strab., Suid. ll. cc. and Phot. s. v. *(rwdw/pidos a)na/qhma). Both may be right, the true name being Doricha, and Rhodopis an appellation of endearment. (See Neue, p. 2.) The period at which Sappho flourished is determined by the concurrent statements of various writers, and by allusions in the fragments of her own works. Athenaeus (xiii. p. 599c.) places her in the time of the Lydian king Alyattes, who reigned from Ol. 38. 1 to Ol. 52. 2, B. C. 628-570 ; Eusebius (Chron.) mentions her at Ol. 44, B. C. 604; and Suidas (s. v.) makes her contemporary with Alcaeus, Stesichorus, and Pittacus in Ol. 42, B. C. 611 (comp. Strab. xiii. p.617). That she was not only contemporary, but lived in friendly intercourse, with Alcaeus, is shown by existing fragments of the poetry of both. Alcaeus addresses her " Violet-crowned, pure, sweetly-smiling Sappho, I wish to tell thee something, but shame prevents me" (Fr. 54, Bergk; 41, 42, Matthiae) ; and S