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Alcidamas, of Elaea, in Aeolis, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the 4th century BC.
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Alcidamas and sophist
Ephorus made Homer a younger cousin of Hesiod, Herodotus ( Histories, 2. 53 ) evidently considered them near-contemporaries, and the 4th century BC sophist Alcidamas in his work Mouseion even brought them together for an imagined poetic agon, which survives today as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod.
Mouseion, connoting an assemblage gathered together under the protection of the Muses, was the title given to a collection of stories about the esteemed writers of the past assembled by Alcidamas, an Athenian sophist of the fourth century BCE.
Alcidamas and .
According to Alcidamas, the highest aim of the orator was the power of speaking extempore on every conceivable subject.
Lastly, his Mouseion ( a word invoking the Muses ) seems to have contained the narrative of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, of which the version that has survived is the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian, based on Alcidamas.
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** Alcidamas, " Against the Sophists ," trans.
West ( 1967 ) for Alcidamas ' invention of the contest of Homer and Hesiod, N. J. Richardson ( 1981 ) against
Alcidamas stated that he was a member of the Spartan assembly.
Elaea and .
Leaving from Elaea, they were headed to the harbour of Phanae, planning to disembark from there to Macedonia.
" Then, the king further offered him the government and possession of the cities Cius, Mylasa and Elaea.
The Caicus enters the sea approximately 12 km from Pitane, and 3 km from Elaea.
Elaea was the port of Pergamon, which was on the Caicus, approximately 25 km from Elaea.
Aeolis and Greek
Pergamon ( or ἡ Πέργαμος ), or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Aeolis, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus ( modern day Bakırçay ), that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 281 – 133 BC.
The Greek name for Edremit is Adramyttion () and the Latin name is Adramyttium, mentioned in the New Testament ( Acts 27: 2 ), as a city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which was called Aeolis in classical antiquity.
Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia.
This treaty restored control of the Greek cities of Ionia and Aeolis on the Anatolian coast to the Persians, while giving Sparta dominance on the Greek mainland.
In linguistics, Aeolic Greek (; also Aeolian, Lesbian or Lesbic Greek ) is the set of dialects of Ancient Greek spoken mainly in Boeotia ( a region in Central Greece ), Thessaly, in the Aegean island of Lesbos, and the Greek colonies of Asia Minor ( Aeolis ).
After the battle all the Lydian lands were annexed by the Persian empire including the Greek cities of Ionia and Aeolis, which led to conflict between Greece and Persia.
* An Amazon in Greek mythology, eponym of Cyme ( Aeolis )
Aeolis and century
Later the Aeolian Greeks settled on that important land in the 8th century BC and established many trade colonies in the region called Aeolis.
Aeolis and BC
Andriscus, (-Andriskos ) and often called the " pseudo-Philip ", was the last King of Macedon ( 149 BC – 148 BC ), and ruler of Adramyttium in Aeolis ( in western Anatolia ).
The Ionian Revolt, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus and Caria, were military rebellions by several regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule, lasting from 499 BC to 493 BC.
The Ionian Revolt and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus, and Caria were military rebellions by several regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule, lasting from 499 to 493 BC.
After 650 BC Smyrna, an originally Aeolic city, was invited to diminish Aeolis and increase Ionia by joining the league, which it did.
Aeolis and .
* Pitane and Priene, two commanders in Myrina's army, after whom the cities of Pitane ( Aeolis ) and Priene were named.
This triggered similar revolutions across Ionia, extending to Doris and Aeolis, beginning the Ionian Revolt.
We learn in the former poem that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis ( on the coast of Asia Minor, a little south of the island Lesbos ), and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, " a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant " ( Works, l. 640 ).
His grandson Gras founded a city Aeolis, between Ionia and Mysia.
It was bounded by Bithynia on the east, Phrygia on the southeast, Lydia on the south, Aeolis on the southwest, Troad on the west and by the Propontis on the north.
Arcesilaus was born in Pitane in Aeolis.
It landed in the Aeolis Palus region of Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012.
Aristagoras's actions have thus been likened to tossing a flame into a kindling box ; they incited rebellion across Ionia ( and Aeolis and Doris ), and tyrannies were everywhere abolished, and democracies established in their place.
It was launched November 26, 2011 at 10: 02 EST and landed in the Aeolis Palus plain near Aeolis Mons ( informally " Mount Sharp ") in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012, 05: 31 UTC.
The Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater, near Aeolis Mons ( a. k. a. Mount Sharp ), on August 6, 2012.
Greek and sophist
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Second-century Greek grammarian, sophist, and rhetoritician Julius Pollux, in the chapter called De Musica, in his 10-volume Onomastikon, had presented the 2-class system, percussion ( including strings ) and winds, which persisted in medieval and postmedieval Europe.
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Adrianus of Tyre ( Ancient Greek:, c. 113 – 193 ), also written as Hadrian and Hadrianos, was a sophist of ancient Athens who flourished under the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.
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