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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Peisander (search)
tolus has indeed been explained as an allusion to his peculating propensities ; but others, by an ingenious conjecture, would substitute *Spa/rtwlon for *Paktwlo\n, and would understand the passage as an attack on him for cowardice in the unsuccessful campaign of the Athenians against the revolted Chalcidians, in B. C. 429 (Thuc. 2.79; comp. Meineke, Fragm. Com. Graec.. vol. i. p. 177, ii. pp. 435, 436). It further appears, from a notice of him in the Symposium of Xeniophon (2.14), that in B. C. 422 he shrunk pusillanimously from serving in the expedition to Macedonia under Cleon (Thuc 5.2). If for this he was brought to trial on an a)stratei/as grafh/, of which, however, we have no evidence, it is possible, us Meineke suggests (Fragm. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 178; comp vol. ii. pp 501, 502), that the circumstance may be allnded to in the following line of the Maricus of Eupolis, -- a)/koue nu=n *Pei/sandros w(s a)po/llutai. To about this period, too, Meineke would refer the play of t
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phaeax (search)
Phaeax （*Fai/ac), an Athenian orator and statesman. He was of good family, being the son of Erasistratus. The date of his birth is not known, but he was a contemporary of Nicias and Alcibiades. Plutarch (Plut. Alc. 13) says, that he and Nicias were the only rivals from whom Alcibiades had any thing to fear when he entered upon public life. Phaeax, like Alcibiades, was at the time just rising to distinction. In B. C. 422 Phaeax with two others was sent as an ambassador to Italy and Sicily, to endeavour to induce the allies of the Athenians in that quarter and the other Siceliots to aid the Leontines against the Syracusans. He succeeded with Camarina and Agrigentum, but his failure at Gela led him to abandon the attempt as hopeless. In his way back he did some service to the Athenian cause among the states of Italy. (Thuc. 5.4, 5.) According to Theophrastus (ap. Plut.) it was Phaeax, and not Nicias, with whom Alcibiades united for the purpose of ostracising Hyperbolus. Most authorities
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'nides (search)
of Philonides previous to the date of the Knights ; but that he did so afterwards we know on the clearest evidence. His next play, the Clouds (B. C. 423), we might suppose to have been brought out in the name of Philonides, on account of the statement of the grammarian, that Aristophanes assigned to him the plays against Socrates and Euripides, coupled with the known fact that the Frogs were exhibited in the name of Philoides ; but, however this may be, we find that, in the following year, B. C. 422, Aristophanes brought oult two plays, the Proagon and the Wasps, both in the name of Philonides, and gained with them the first and second prize. This statement rests on the authority of the difficult and certainly corrupted Passage in the Didascalia of the Wasps, into the critical discussion of which we cannot here enter, further than to give, as the result, the following amended reading, which is founded on the Ravenna MS., adopted both by Dindorf and Bergk, and of the correctness of whi
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Rha'mphias (search)
Rha'mphias （*(Ramfi/as), a Lacedaemonian, rather of Clearchus (Thuc. 8.8, 39; Xen. Hell. 1.1.35), was one of the three ambassadors who were sent to Athens in B. C. 432, with the final demand of Sparta for the independence of all the Greek states. The demand was refused, and the Peloponnesian war ensued. (Thuc. 1.139, &c.) In B. C. 422 Rhamphias, with two colleagues, commanded a force of 900 men, intended for the strengthening of Brasidas in Thrace; but their passage through Thessaly was opposed by the Thessalians, and, hearing also of the battle of Amphipolis and the death of Brasidas, they returned to Sparta. (Thuc. 5.12, 13.) [E.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
A. Se'llius elected tribune of the plebs in his absence in B. C. 422. (Liv. 4.42.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Zeuxis (search)
events, earlier than the date assigned by Pliny (Plat. Gorg. p. 453c. d.; Xen. Mem. 1.4.6, Oecon. 10.1; and probably also Sympos. 4.63, and Plat. Protag. p. 318b. c. ; see ZEUXIPPUS). Besides the general indications of his date, furnished by these passages, the one last quoted (if Zeuxippus there be Zeuxis) gives a specific date perfectly in accordance with the one assumed, for the second visit of Protagoras to Athens, on occasion of which the dialogue is supposed to be held, took place in B. C. 422. Similar incidental evidence may be derived from Aristophanes, who, in the Acharnians (991, 992), having mentioned Eros, adds :-- w(/sper o( gegramme/nos, e)/xwn ste/fanon a)nqe/mwn. Now, from the general character of the allusions in the comic poets, we may safely infer that the picture alluded to was only recently painted; and therefore we are quite prepared to accept the express statement of the Scholiast, that the picture referred to was one painted by Zeuxis, and dedicated in the te
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