Theopompus - Theopompus Theopompus, a Greek historian and rhetorician, was born at Chios about 380 BC. In early youth he seems to have spent some time at Athens, along with his father, who had been exiled on accouut of his Laconian sympathies. Here he became a pupil of Isocrates, and rapidly made great progress in rhetoric; we are told that Isocrates used to say that Ephorus required the spur but Theopompus the bit (Cicero, Brutus, 204). At first he appears to have composed epideictic speeches, in which he attained to such proficiency that in 352-351 he gained the prize of oratory given by Artemisia in honour of her husband, although Isocrates was himself among the competitors. It is said to have been the advice of his teacher that.
Kings of Sparta - I 380- 371 BC. Agesipolis II 371 - 370 BC. Cleomenes II 370- 309 BC. Areus I 309- 265 BC Acrotatus 265 - 262 BC. Areus II 262- 254 BC Leonidas II 254 - 235 BC. Cleomenes III 235- 222 BC. Eurypontid Kings Procles Soos Eurypon Prytanis Polydectes Eunomus Charillus Nicander Theopompus Anaxandridas I Zeuxidamas Anaxidamus Archidamus I Agasicles Ariston 550 - 515 BC Demaratus 515- 491 BC. Leotychidas II 491 - 469 BC. Archidamus II 469 - 427 BC. Agis II 427- 400 BC. Agesilaus II 400 - 360 BC. Archidamus III 360- 338 BC. Agis III 338 - 331 BC. Eudamidas I 331- 305 BC. Archidamus IV 305 - 275 BC. Eudamidas II 275- 244 BC. Agis IV 244- 241 BC. Eudamidas III 241-228 BC. Archidamus V 228 -.
Isocrates - the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt. We have nine letters in his name, but the authenticity of four have been questioned. He was a fierce opponent of Plato. Among his students were Hypereides, Theopompus, and Ephorus. External Links http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Isocrates.html The works of Isocrates. http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/figures/isocrates.html http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/w.willis/isocrates.html.
History of Sparta - it was solely in this consistency and steadfastness that the greatness of Sparta lay. Some maintain that her ideal was a narrow and unworthy one, and was pursued with a calculating selfishness and a total disregard for the rights of others, which robbed it of the moral worth it might otherwise have possessed. Nevertheless, it is not probable that without the training introduced by Lycurgus the Spartans would have been successful in securing their supremacy in Laconia, much less in the Peloponnese, for they formed a small immigrant band face to face with a large and powerful Achaean and autochthonous population. The Expansion of Sparta We cannot trace in detail the process by which Sparta subjugated the whole of Laconia, but apparently the first step, taken in the reign of Archelaus.
Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus - under the sway of Alexander and his successors. It began with Ninus, the founder of Nineveh, and ended at about the same point as Livy (AD 9). The last event recorded by the epitomator Justin is the recovery of the Roman standards captured by the Parthians (20 BC). He left untouched Roman history up to the time when Greece and the East came into contact with Rome, possibly because Livy had sufficiently treated it. The work was based upon the writings of Greek historians, such as Theopompus (also the author of a Philippica), Ephorus, Timaeus, Polybius. Chiefly on the ground that such a work was beyond the powers of a Roman, it is generally agreed that Trogus did not gather together the information from the leading Greek historians for himself, but.
Ephorus - Aeolia, in Asia Minor, was a Greek historian. Together with the historian Theopompus he was a pupil of Isocrates, in whose school he attended two courses of rhetoric. But he does not seem to have made much progress in the art, and it is said to have been at the suggestion of Isocrates himself that he took up literary composition and the study of history. The fruit of his labours was a set of 29 books, the first universal history, beginning with the return of the Heraclidae to Peloponnesus, as the first well-attested historical event. The whole work was edited by his son Demophilus, who added a 30th book, containing a summary description of the Social War and ending with the taking of Perinthus (340) by Philip of Macedon. (cf. Diod..
Archons of Athens - Aristarchus are strategoi 410 BC-409 BC Glaucippus 409 BC-408 BC Diocles Anytus is a strategos 408 BC-407 BC Euctimon 407 BC-406 BC Andigenes Alcibiades, Adeimantus, and Aristocrates are strategoi 406 BC-405 BC Callias Angelides Archestratus, Thrasylus, Pericles, Lysias, Diomedon, Aristocrates, Erasinides, Protomachus, and Aristogenes are strategoi 405 BC-404 BC Alexias Adeimantus, Eucrates, Philocles, Menandrus, Tydeus, and Cephisodotus are strategoi 404 BC-403 BC Pythodorus Sparta sets up the oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants; Pythodorus not recognized as Eponymous Archon 403 BC-402 BC Eucleides 402 BC-401 BC Micon 401 BC-400 BC Xenaenetus 400 BC-399 BC Laches 399 BC-398 BC Aristocrates 398 BC-397 BC Euthycles 397 BC-396 BC Souniades 396 BC-395 BC Phormion 395 BC-394 BC Diophandus 394 BC-393 BC Ebulides 393 BC-392 BC Demostratus Adeimantus is a strategos 392 BC-391 BC Philocles 391.
Atlantis - the Atlanteans did not know the fruits of Ceres. In fact, cereals were unknown to American Indians. Pausanias called these island "Satyrides," referring to the Atlantes and those who profess to know the measurements of the earth . He states that far west of the Ocean there lies a group of islands whose inhabitants are red-skinned and whose hair is like that of the horse. (Christopher Columbus described the Indians similarly.) A fragmentary work of Theophrastus of Lesbos tells about the colonies of Atlantis in the sea. Hesiod wrote that the garden of the Hesperides was on an island in the sea where the sun sets. Pliny the Elder recorded that this land was 12,000 km distant from Cadiz, and Uba, a Numidian king intended to establish a stock farm of.
Tyrtaeus - in Laconia, conjectures that the entire legend may have been concocted in connexion with the expedition sent to the assistance of Sparta in her struggle with the revolted Helots at Ithome (464). However this may be, it is generally admitted that Tyrtaeus flourished during the second Messenian war (c. 650 BC)--a period of remarkable musical and poetical activity at Sparta, when poets like Terpander and Thaletas were welcomed--that he not only wrote poetry but served in the field, and that he endeavoured to compose the internal dissensions of Sparta (Aristotle, Politics, v. 6) by inspiring the citizens with a patriotic love for their fatherland. About twelve fragments (three of them complete poems) are preserved in Strabo, Lycurgus, Stobaeus and others. They are mainly elegiac and in the Ionic dialect, written partly.
Zoroaster - childhood of Zoroaster and his hermit-life. Thus, according to Pliny (Nat. Hist vii. 15), he laughed on the very day of his birth -- a statement found also in the Zardus/it-Năma -- and lived in the wilderness upon cheese (xi. 97). Plutarch speaks of his intercourse with the deity, and compares him with Lycurgus and Numa Pompilius (Numa, 4). Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch's contemporary, declares that neither Homer nor Hesiod sang of the chariot and horses of Zeus so worthily as Zoroaster, of whom the Persians tell that, out of love to wisdom and righteousness, he withdrew himself from men, and lived in solitude upon a mountain. The mountain was consumed by fire, but Zoroaster escaped uninjured and spoke to the multitude (vol. ii. p. 60). Plutarch, drawing partly on Theopompus, speaks.
