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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), A'baris (search)
ons (Plat. Charmid. p. 158, B.), delivered the world from a plague (Suidas, s. v. *)/Abaris), and built at Sparta a temple of *Ko/rh sw/teira. (Paus. 3.13.2.) Suidas and Eudocia ascribe to him several works, such as incantations, Scythian oracles, a poem on the marriage of the river Hebrus, expiatory formulas, the arrival of Apollo among the Hyperboreans, and a prose work on the origin of the gods. But such works, if they were really current in ancient times, were no more genuine than his reputed correspondence with Phalaris the tyrant. The time of his appearance in Greece is stated differently, some fixing it in Ol. 3, others in Ol. 21, and others again make him a contemporary of Croesus. (Bentley, On the Epist. of Phalaris, p. 34.) Lobeck places it about the year B. C. 570, i. e. about Ol. 52. Respecting the perplexing traditions about Abaris see Klopfer, Mythologisches Wörterbuch, i. p. 2; Zapf, Disputatio historica de Abaride, Lips. 1707; Larcher, on Herod. vol. iii. p. 446. [L.S
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Aeso'pus (search)
Aeso'pus （*Ai)/swpos), a writer of Fables, a species of composition which has been defined " analogical narratives, intended to convey some moral lesson, in which irrational animals or objects are introduced as speaking." (Philolog. Museum, i. p. 280.) Of his works none are extant, and of his life scarcely anything is known. He appears to have lived about B. C. 570, for Herodotus (2.134) mentions a woman named Rhodopis as a fellowslave of Aesop's, and says that she lived in the time of Arnasis king of Egypt, who began to reign B. C. 569. Plutarch makes him contemporary with Solon (Sept. Sap. Conv. p. 152c.), and Laertius (1.72) says, that he flourished about the 52th Olympiad. The only apparent authority against this date is that of Suidas (s. v. *Ai)/swpos); but the passage is plainly corrupt, and if we adopt the correction of Clinton, it gives about B. C. 620 for the date of his birth; his death is placed B. C. 564, but may have occurred a little later. (See Clinton, Fast. Hell. vo
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ba'ttus (search)
r islands, whom the state invited over under the promise of a new division of lands (probably to enable herself to make head against the neighbouring Libyans), and who were further urged to the migration by the Delphic oracle. (Hdt. 4.159, comp. 100.161.) This influx apparently giving rise to farther encroachments on the Libyan tribes, the latter, under Adicran, their king, surrendered themselves to Apries, king of Egypt, and claimed his protection. A battle ensued in the region of Irasa, B. C. 570, in which the Egyptians were defeated,--this being the first time, according to Herodotus (4.159), that they had ever come into hostile collision with Greeks. (Comp. Hdt. 2.161; Diod. 1.68.) This battle seems to have finished the war with Egypt; for we read in Herodotus (2.181), that Amasis formed a marriage with Ladice, a Cyrenaean woman, daughter perhaps of Battus II. (Wesseling, ad Herod. l.c.), and, in other ways as well, cultivated friendly relations with the Cyrenaeans. By the same v
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Ba'ttus the Happy (search)
r islands, whom the state invited over under the promise of a new division of lands (probably to enable herself to make head against the neighbouring Libyans), and who were further urged to the migration by the Delphic oracle. (Hdt. 4.159, comp. 100.161.) This influx apparently giving rise to farther encroachments on the Libyan tribes, the latter, under Adicran, their king, surrendered themselves to Apries, king of Egypt, and claimed his protection. A battle ensued in the region of Irasa, B. C. 570, in which the Egyptians were defeated,--this being the first time, according to Herodotus (4.159), that they had ever come into hostile collision with Greeks. (Comp. Hdt. 2.161; Diod. 1.68.) This battle seems to have finished the war with Egypt; for we read in Herodotus (2.181), that Amasis formed a marriage with Ladice, a Cyrenaean woman, daughter perhaps of Battus II. (Wesseling, ad Herod. l.c.), and, in other ways as well, cultivated friendly relations with the Cyrenaeans. By the same v
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Hanno (search)
3.9; Marc. Heracl. Epit. Artemid. et Menip. ; Ath. 3.83.) It is therefore presumed that our periplus is a Greek version of the contents of that Punic tablet. These vague accounts. leaving open the widest field for conjecture and speculation, have led some critics to place the expedition as early as the Trojan war or the time of Hesiod, while others place it as late as the reign of Agathocles. Others, as Falconer, Bougainville, and Gail, with somewhat more probability, place Hanno about B. C. 570. But it seems preferable to identify him with Hanno, the father or son of Hamilcar, who was killed at Himera, B. C. 480. [HANNO, Nos. 1, 2.] The fact of such an expedition at that time had nothing at all improbable, for in the reign of the Egyptian king Necho, a similar voyage had been undertaken by the Phoenicians, and an accurate knowledge of the western coast of Africa was a matter of the highest importance to the Carthaginians. The number of colonists, 30,000, is undoubtedly an error e
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Polyze'lus (search)
Polyze'lus （*Polu/zhlo/s). 1. Of Messene, an historian, who, according to one account, was the father of the poet Ibycus. (Suid. s. v. *)/Ibukos). If so, he must have lived about B. C. 570
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pytha'goras (search)
2 years from the h/liki/a of Pythagoras to B. C. 270. This would place the date of his birth at the close of the seventh century B. C. (B. C. 608.) Nearly the same date results from the account of Eratosthenes (ap. D. L. 8.47), and this is the date adopted by Bentley among others. On the other hand, according to Aristoxenus (Porph. l.c. 100.9), Pythagoras quitted Samos in the reign of Polycrates, at the age of 40. According to Iamblichus he was 57 years of age in B. C. 513. This would give B. C. 570 as the date of his birth, and this date coincides better with other statements. All authorities agree that he flourished in the times of Polycrates and Tarquinius Superbus (B. C. 540-510. See Clinton, Fasti Hellen. s. a. B. C. 539, 533, 531, 510). The war between Sybaris and Crotona might furnish some data bearing upon the point, if the connection of Pythagoras with it were matter of certainty. It was natural that men should be eager to know, or ready to conjecture the sources whence Pyt
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pytha'goras (search)
2 years from the h/liki/a of Pythagoras to B. C. 270. This would place the date of his birth at the close of the seventh century B. C. (B. C. 608.) Nearly the same date results from the account of Eratosthenes (ap. D. L. 8.47), and this is the date adopted by Bentley among others. On the other hand, according to Aristoxenus (Porph. l.c. 100.9), Pythagoras quitted Samos in the reign of Polycrates, at the age of 40. According to Iamblichus he was 57 years of age in B. C. 513. This would give B. C. 570 as the date of his birth, and this date coincides better with other statements. All authorities agree that he flourished in the times of Polycrates and Tarquinius Superbus (B. C. 540-510. See Clinton, Fasti Hellen. s. a. B. C. 539, 533, 531, 510). The war between Sybaris and Crotona might furnish some data bearing upon the point, if the connection of Pythagoras with it were matter of certainty. It was natural that men should be eager to know, or ready to conjecture the sources whence Pyt
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sappho (search)
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 Sappho i
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theognis (search)
ander from his native city will presently appear. The time at which Theognis flourished is expressly stated by several writers as the 58th or 59th Olympiad, B. C. 548 or 544. (Cyrill. ad v. Julian. i. p. 13a., vii. p. 225c.; Euseb. Chron. ; Suid. s. v.). It is evident, from passages in his poems, that he lived till after the commencement of the Persian wars, B. C. 490. These statements may be reconciled, by supposing that he was about eighty at the latter date, and that he was born about B. C. 570. (Clinton, F. H. s. a. 544.) Cyril (l.c.) and Suidas (s. v. *Fwknli/dhs) make him contemporary with Phocylides of Miletus. Works Both the life and writings of Theognis, like those of Alcaeus, are inseparably connected with the political events of his time and city. The little state of Megara had been for some time before the poet's birth the scene of great political convulsions. After shaking off the yoke of Corinth, it had remained for a time under the nobles, until about the year B. C