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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ba'ttus (search)
the region of Marmarica. He met his end at last by treachery, being strangled by his brother or friend, Learchus. His wife, Eryxo, however, soon after avenged his death by the murder of his assassin. His reign lasted, according to some, from 560 to 550 B. C.; according to others, from 554 to 544. (Hdt. 4.160; Diod. Exc. de Virt. et Vit. p. 232; Plut. de Virt. Mul. pp. 260, 261; Thrige, §§ 35, 37.) Ba'ttus Iii. 5. BATTUS III., or "the lame" (*Xwlo/s), son of Arcesilaus JI., reigned from B. C. 550 to 530, or, as some state it, from 544 to 529. In his time, the Cyrenaeans, weakened by internal seditions, apprehensive of assaults from Libya and Egypt, and distressed too perhaps by the consciousness of the king's inefficiency, invited Demonax, a Mantinean, by the advice of the Delphic oracle, to settle the constitution of the city. The conflicting claims of the original colonists with those of the later settlers, and the due distribution of power between the sovereign and the commonalt
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Ba'ttus Iii. 5. BATTUS III., or "the lame" (*Xwlo/s), son of Arcesilaus JI., reigned from B. C. 550 to 530, or, as some state it, from 544 to 529. In his time, the Cyrenaeans, weakened by internal seditions, apprehensive of assaults from Libya and Egypt, and distressed too perhaps by the consciousness of the king's inefficiency, invited Demonax, a Mantinean, by the advice of the Delphic oracle, to settle the constitution of the city. The conflicting claims of the original colonists with those of the later settlers, and the due distribution of power between the sovereign and the commonalty, were the main difficulties with which he had to deal. With respect to the former point, he substituted for the old division of tribes an entirely new one, in which however some privileges, in regard to their relation to the *Peri/oikoi, were reserved to those of Theraean descent; while the royal power he reduced within very narrow limits, leaving to the king only certain selected lands, and the enj
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Dontas (search)
Dontas （*Do/ntas), a Lacedaemonian statuary, was the disciple of Dipoenus and Scyllis, and therefore flourished about B. C. 550. He made the statues which were afterwards placed in the treasury of the Megarians at Olympia. They were of cedar inlaid with gold, and formed a group representing the contest of Heracles with the river Acheloüs, and containing figures of Zeus, Deianeira, Acheloüs, and Heracles, with Ares assisting Acheloüs, and Athena supporting Heracles. The latter statue seems, however, not to have been part of the original group, but a separate work by Medon. (Comp. Paus. 5.17. 1.) The group in the pediment of the Megarian treasury, representing the war of the gods and the giants, seems also to have been the work of Dontas; but the passage in Pausanias is not quite clear. (Paus. 6.19.9; Böckh, Corp. Inscrip. i. p. 47, &c.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Dorycleidas (search)
Dorycleidas （*Doruklei/das), a Lacedaemonian statuary, the brother of Medon, made the gold and ivory statue of Themis, in the temple of Hera at Olympia. He was a disciple of Dipoenus and Scyllis, and therefore flourished about B. C. 550. (Paus. 5.17.1.) [P.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Medon (search)
Medon （*Me/dwn), a Lacedaemonian statuary, the brother of Dorycleidas, and the disciple of )ipoenus and Scyllis, made the gold and ivory statue of Athena in the Heraeum at Olympia (Paus. 5.17.1). He flourished about B. C. 550. [P.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pericleitus (search)
Pericleitus （*Peri/kleitos), a Lesbian lyric musician of the school of Terpander, flourished shortly before Hipponax, that is, a little earlier than B. C. 550. At the Lacedaemonian festival of the Carneia, there were musical contests with the cithara, in which the Lesbian musicians of Terpander's school had obtained the prize from the time of Terpander himself to that of Pericleitus, with whom the glory of the school ceased. (Plut. de Mus. 6. p. 1133d.) [P.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Terpander (search)
, or whether they were handed down by tradition in the school which he founded. Be this as it may, they remained for a very long period the standard melodies used at religious festivals, and the school of Terpander flourished for many generations at Sparta, and in Lesbos, and throughout Greece. At the festival of the Carneia, where Terpander had been the first to obtain a victory, the prize for lyric music was gained in regular succession by members of his school down to PERICLEITUS, about B. C. 550. Respecting the improvements in citharoedic music after the time of Terpander, see THALETAS. The remains of Terpander's poetry, which no doubt consisted entirely of religious hymns, are comprised in the two fragments already quoted, and in two others, the one of one hexameter verse (Schol. Aristoph. Cl. 591), and the other of one and a half (Plut. Lyc. 21), and one reference. (Böckh, Plehn, and Müller, as above quoted; Ulrici, Gesch. d. Hellen Dichtk. vol. ii. pp. 341, foll.; Bode, vol.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), The'ocles (search)
The'ocles （*Qeoklh=s), the son of Hegylus, was a Lacedaemonian statuary, and one of the disciples of Dipoenus and Scyllis. He therefore flourished about B. C. 550. He wrought in wood and in ivory and gold. Two of his works are apparently mentioned by Pausanias; but they were only separate parts of one and the same group, representing Hercules preparing to carry off the golden apples of the Hesperides. This group consisted of a celestial hemisphere (po/los, see Dict. of Antiq. s. v. 2d ed.) upheld by Atlas, with Hercules, and the tree which bore the golden apples of the Hesperides, and the dragon coiled around the tree, all carved out of cedar wood. An inscription on the po/los stated that the work was executed by Theocles and his son. It stood at Olympia, in the treasury of the Epidamnians; but, in the time of Pausanias, the figures of the Hesperides had been removed from it by the Eleians, and placed in the temple of Hera. (Paus. 6.19.5. s. 8.) In his description of the temple of He