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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'stratus (search)
ophistic philosophers, beginning with Eudoxus of Cnidus, B. C. 366, and ending with Dion Chrysostom and Favorinus, a contemporary of Herodes Atticus, on whom he dwells a little more fully--eight lives in all. He then begins with the sophists proper of the old school, commencing with Gorgias (born about B. C. 480), and ending with Isocrates (born B. C. 438), who (eight in all) may be said to belong to the school of Gorgias. He begins the newer school of sophists with Aeschines (who was born B. C. 389), which seems mainly introductory, and to prove his position that the modern school was not entirely new, but had its origin so far back as the time of Aeschines. He passes immediately thereafter to the time of Nicetas, about A. D. 97, and the first book ends with Secundus, who was one of the instructors of Herodes Atticus, bringing the sophists in ten lives down to the same period as the sophistic philosophers. The second book begins with Herodes Atticus, about A. D. 143, and continues wi
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Plato (search)
hich, in fact, some of the grammarians assign him. He is mentioned by Marcellinus (Vit. Thuc. p. xi. Bekker) as contemporary with Thucydides, who died in Ol. 97. 2, B. C. 391; but Plato must have lived a few years longer, as Plutarch quotes from him a passage which evidently refers to the appointment of the demagogue Agyrrhius as general of the army of Lesbos in Ol. 97. 3. (Plut. de Repub. gerend. p. 801b.) The period, therefore, during which Plato flourished was from B. C. 428 to at least B. C. 389. Of the personal history of Plato nothing more is known, except that Suidas tells a story of his being so poor that he was obliged to write comedies for other persons (s. v. *)Arka/das mimou/menoi). Suidas founds this statement on a passage of the Peisander of Plato, in which the poet alludes to his labouring for others : but the story of his poverty is plainly nothing more than an arbitrary conjecture, made to explain the passage, the true meaning of which, no doubt, is that Plato, like
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Plato (search)
24, 326, 327, mentions only the acquaintance with Dion, not that with the elder Dionysius). More doubt attaches to the story, according to which he was given up by the tyrant to the Spartan ambassador Pollis, by him sold into Aegina, and set at liberty by the Cyrenian Anniceris. This story is told in very different forms. On the other hand, we find the statement that Plato came to Sicily when about forty years old, so that he would have returned to Athens at the close of the 97th Olympiad (B. C. 389 or 388), about twelve years after the death of Socrates; and perhaps for that reason Ol. 97. 4, was set down by the chronologers whom Eusebius follows as the period when he flourished. After his return he began to teach, partly in the gymnasium of the Academy and its shady avenues, near the city, between the exterior Cerameicus and the hill Colonus Hippius, partly in his garden, which was situated at Colontis (Timon ap. D. L. 3.7, comp. 5; Plut. de Exilio, 100.10, &c.). Respecting the acqu
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tricostus (search)
Tricostus 4. L. Virginius Tricostus, consular tribune B. C. 389, the year after Rome had been taken by the Gauls. (Liv. 6.1.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Xenarchus (search)
Xenarchus （*Ce/narxos), literary. 1. A son of Sophron, and, like his father, a celebrated writer of mimes. He flourished during the Rhegian War (B. C. 399-389), at the court of Dionysius, who is said to have employed him to ridicule the Rhegians, as cowards, in his poems. (Phot. and Suid. s. v. *(Rhgi/nous.) His mimes are mentioned, with those of Sophron, by Aristotle (Poet. 2). They were in the Doric dialect. (Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. s. a. 393 ; SOPHRON
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