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Albion
A poetic or literary term for Britain or England (often used in referring to ancient or historical times). Recorded in Old English, the word comes from Latin and is probably of Celtic origin; ...
Aristodemus
Of unknown date (4th cent. ad ?),compiled a history of Greece which included at least the period 480–431 bc, perhaps as a handbook for students of rhetoric. Aristodemus drew ...
Asclepiades
(RE 27),of Tragilus (4th cent. bc), wrote an account of Greek mythology as told in tragedy, the six books of Tragodoumena (Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 12), just as earlier ...
books, poetic
The accelerated rise of the book-roll in the 4th and 3rd cents. bc has artistic consequences which are first strongly felt in the Alexandrian Library. The scholar-poets who classify and ...
Common Peace
(κοινὴ εἰ̑ρήνη), the phrase used by Diodorus (3) Siculus, following Ephorus, and by some contemporaries (though not by Demosthenes (2), Isocrates, or Xenophon (1)) to describe a series of ...
Cyme
The most important and powerful of the Aeolian cities (see Aeolis) on the seaboard of Asia Minor, occupying a naturally strong harbour site midway between the mouths of the Caicus ...
Cӯmē
The most powerful of the Aeolian cities (see aeolis) on the seaboard of Asia Minor, occupying a naturally strong harbour site. It was dominated successively by the Persians, the Athenians (to whose ...
Diodorus Siculus
[Na]Greek historian who wrote a book called World history sometime between 60 bc and 30 bc. This account included descriptions of the Celts and the Gauls which were largely based on descriptions ...
Dionysius I
Of Syracuse, born c.430 bc, son of Hermocritus, a well-to-do Syracusan; wounded (408) in Hermocrates' attempted coup; secretary to the generals (406), he distinguished himself in the campaign against ...
Diyllus of Athens
(early 3rd cent. bc),son of the atthidographer (see Atthis) Phanodemus and author of a universal history, in 26 books, including that of Sicily for the period 357–297 bc. The ...
Dorians
‘in historical times were the people who spoke Doric Greek (see dialects, greek): in SE and NE Peloponnese (Sparta, Argos, Corinth, Megara), on islands in the south Aegean (Melos, Crete, Rhodes, ...
Ephorus Quick reference
Kenneth S. Sacks
Who's Who in the Classical World
of Cyme (c.405–330
a historian whose now lost work is of great importance because Diodorus Siculus...
Ephorus (c.405–330 bc)(of Cyme) Reference library
Sacks Kenneth S.
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
a historian whose now lost work is of great importance because *Diodorus (3) Siculus followed it extensively. In antiquity, he was thought to have been a student of ...
Greek historiography
Homer is slippery ground for the historian. But his characters show awareness of the past, and they long to leave glory behind them; thus Achilles sings of the famous deeds of men and Helen weaves ...
Hesiod
(c.700 bc)Early Greek poet. His Theogony is about origins of the gods, while Works and Days contains advice on how to live, a sermon inveighing against dishonesty and idleness.
historiography, Hellenistic
In an age that witnessed the conquests by Alexander (3) the Great and his Successors and then the Roman succession to virtually all that had been theirs, Greeks substantially expanded ...
Isocrates
(436–338bc)Greek philosopher and follower of Socrates. An important source for knowledge of fourth-century Greece, Isocrates was an orator and teacher of rhetoric, and known mainly as a historian, ...
Mausolus
Son of Hecatomnus. Ruler of Caria 377–353 bc, in conjunction with his sister and wife Artemisia, and a diffuser of Hellenism in 4th‐cent. Asia Minor, who nevertheless promoted or retained the local ...
Nicolaus of Damascus
Versatile author; friend and historian of Herod (1) the Great; b. c.64 bc of distinguished family, very well‐educated. He became a Peripatetic and met leading figures of his day: he was tutor to the ...
Oxyrhynchus, the historian from
Hellenica of Oxyrhynchus: two sets of papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, both 2nd cent. bc: POxy 842 (London Papyrus, found in 1906, edited by Grenfell and Hunt, who named the unknown ...
