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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Myron (search)
Myron （*Mu/rwn), one of the most celebrated of the Greek statuaries, and also a sculptor and engraver, was born at Eleutherae, in Boeotia, about B. C. 480. (Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19.3.) Pausanias calls him an Athenian, because Eleutherae had been admitted to the Athenian franchise. He was the disciple of Ageladas, the fellow-disciple of Polycleitus, and a younger contemporary of Phi dias. Pliny gives for the time when he flourished the 87th Olympiad, or B. C. 431, the time of the beginning of the Peloponnesian war. (H. N. 34.8. s. 19.) The chief characteristic of Myron seems to have been his power of expressing a great variety of forms. Not content with the human figure in its most difficult and momentary attitudes, he directed his art towards various other animals, and he seems to have been the first great artist who did so. To this characteristic Pliny no doubt refers, when he says, Primus hic nmultiplicasse veritatem videtur, numerosior quam Polycletus (l.c. § 3). To this love of
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phaeax (search)
Phaeax （*Fai/ac), a celebrated architect of Agrigentum, who flourished about Ol. 75, B. C. 480, and executed several important public works for his native city. Among the most remarkable of these works were the sewers (u(po/nomoi), which were named, after the architect, (*Fai/akes. (Diod. 11.25.) [P.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phayllus (search)
Phayllus （*Fa/u+llos). 1. An athlete of Crotona, who had thrice gained the victory at the Pythian games. At the time of the Persian invasion of Greece, Phayllus fitted out a ship at his own expense, with which he joined the Greek fleet assembled at Salamis, and took part in the memorable battle that ensued, B. C. 480. This was the only assistance furnished by the Greeks of Italy or Sicily to their countrymen upon that occasion. (Hdt. 8.47; Paus. 10.9.2; Plut. Alex. 34.) It is probably this Phayllus whose wonderful feats as an athlete are celebrated in a well-known epigram. (Anth. Pal. vol. ii. p. 851 ; Suid. v. *Fa/u+llos and U(pe\r ta\ e)skamme/na ; Eusitath. ad Od. *Q p. 1591. 54; Tzetz. Chil. 12.435; Schol. ad Aristoph. Ach. 214
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pherecy'des (search)
is the same as the Athenian. He is called a Lerian from having been born in the island of Leros, and an Athenian from having spent the greater part of his life at Athens; and it may be added that, except in Suidas, we find mention of only one historical writer of this name. (Comp. D. L. 1.119; Strab. x. p.487b.) Suidas also makes a mistake in calling him older than his namesake of Syros; but the exact time at which he lived is differently stated. Suidas places him before the 75th Olympiad, B. C. 480 ; but Eusebius and the Chronicon Paschale in the 81st Olympiad, B. C. 456, and Isidorus (Orig. 1.41) in the 80th Olympiad. There can be no doubt that he lived in the former half of the fifth century B. C., and was a contemporary of Hellanicus and Herodotus. He is mentioned by Lucian as one of the instances of longevity, and is said to have attained the age of 85 years. (Lucian, de Macrob. 22, where he is erroneously called o( *Su/rios instead of o( *Le/rios.） Works Works known from Sui
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'stratus (search)
oldest and the more recent schools of rhetoric, with great propriety divides the Lives into three parts, of which the first is the shortest, and contains mere notices, in most cases, of the sophistic 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 instructo
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'stratus (search)
oldest and the more recent schools of rhetoric, with great propriety divides the Lives into three parts, of which the first is the shortest, and contains mere notices, in most cases, of the sophistic 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 instructo
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Polyze'lus (search)
Polyze'lus （*Polu/zhlos), a Syracusan, son of Deinomenes and brother of Gelon, the tyrant of Syracuse. His name was inscribed together with those of his three brothers on the tripods dedicated by Gelon to commemorate his victory at Himera, B. C. 480, whence we may conclude that Polyzelus himself bore a part in the success of that memorable day. (Schol. ad Pind. pyth. 1.155.) At his death, in B. C. 478, Gelon left the sovereign power to his brother Hieron, but bequeathed the hand of his widow Demarete. the daughter of Theron, together with the command of the army, to Polyzelus, who by this means obtained a degree of power and influence, which quickly excited the jealousy of Hieron. The latter in consequence deputed his brother to assist the Crotoniats, who had applied to him for support against the Sybarites, in hopes that he might perish in the war. Polyzelus, according to one account, refused to comply, and was, in consequence, driven into exile; but other authors state that he unde
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ti. Pontifi'cius a tribune of the plebs, B. C. 480, attempted to introduce an agrarian law. (Liv. 2.44.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Prota'goras (search)
sophist (Plat. Prot. p. 317c.), that he was twenty years older than Socrates. On the other hand, if Euripides alluded to his death in the Ixion (according to Philochorus in D. L. 9.55), he must have died before B. C. 406 or 407, i. e. before the death of Euripides. With preponderating probability, therefore, Frei places the death of Protagoras in B. C. 411, assuming that Pythodorus accused him during the government of the Four Hundred (Quaest. Protey. p. 64), and accordingly assigns about B. C. 480 as the date of his birth. That Protagoras had already acquired fame during his residence in Abdera cannot be inferred from the doubtful statement, that he was termed by the Abderites lo/gos, and Democritus filosofi/a or sofi/a. (Ael. VH 4.20; comp. Suid. s. vv. *Prwtag. *Dhmo/kr., &c. Phavorinus, in D. L. 9.50, gives to Protagoras the designation of tofi/a). He was the first who called himself a sophist, and taught for pay (Plat. Protag. p. 349a.; D. L. 9.52). He must have come to Athens
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pto'lichus (search)
Pto'lichus *Pto/lixos, (statuaries. 1. Of Aegina, the son and pupil of Synnoon, flourished from about Ol. 75 to about Ol. 82, B. C. 480-448. [ARISTOCLES]. The only works of his, which are mentioned, are the statues of two Olympic victors, Theognetus of Aegina, and Epicradius of Mantineia (Paus. 6.9.1, 10.2).
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