• Philostephanus of Cyrene (Philostephanus Cyrenaeus) (Ancient Greek: Φιλοστέφανος) was a Hellenistic writer from North Africa, who was a pupil of the poet...
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  • Philostephanus (Ancient Greek: Φιλοστέφανος) was a Greek poet of the old or middle comedy. Little information about him survives. Athenaeus preserved a...
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  • Nicander Paeon of Amathus Palaephatus Philinus of Agrigentum Philochorus Philostephanus Phylarchus Polybius Posidonius Satyrus the Peripatetic Sosicrates Theopompus...
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    and more. Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, Pliny, Philostephanus) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally she was imagined...
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    commanders, Philostephanus, began the first attack by crossing the river that divided both forces. The Hasmoneans had the advantage. Philostephanus held back...
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    creation. The story of Pygmalion appeared earliest in a Hellenistic work, Philostephanus' history of Cyprus, "De Cypro". It is retold in Ovid's Metamorphoses...
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    mythography of the 2nd-century AD. Perhaps he drew on the lost narrative by Philostephanus that was paraphrased by Clement of Alexandria. In the story of Dido...
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    of Pygmalion is first mentioned by the third-century BC Greek writer Philostephanus of Cyrene, but is first recounted in detail in Ovid's Metamorphoses...
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    librarian there. Callimachus' pupil Hermippus of Smyrna wrote biographies, Philostephanus of Cyrene studied geography, and Istros (who may have also been from...
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  • 6.4 Scholiast, On Pindar's Olympian 2.14 Herodotus, Histories 7.153 Philostephanus, apud Athen. vii. p. 297f. Etymologicum Magnum, s.v. Γέλα Stephanus...
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    foot-race. He won at 275 B.C. Lacydes (3rd century BC), philosopher Philostephanus, Hellenistic writer Ptolemais, philosopher of music Simon of Cyrene...
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  • Great's generals Philochorus – historian Philocles – Athenian tragic poet Philostephanus – a writer Philotis (Φιλῶτις) – a woman Philoxenios – Indo-Greek king...
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    Taenarum." Kalaureia Kalaureia (Greece) Kalaureia was mentioned by Philostephanus in a lost work On Islands. It was to Kalaureia that Demosthenes the...
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  • notable people from Libya. Callimachus, ancient poet and librarian Philostephanus, Hellenistic writer Eugammon of Cyrene, flourished 567/6 BC. Ahmed Rafiq...
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    Paurolygus - Peltidolygus - Peltidopeplus - Perumiris - Pharyllus - Philostephanus - Phytocoridea - Phytocoris - Phytocorisca - Piasus - Pinalitopsis -...
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  • are embedded in looser allusions to this Homeric passage: Ephorus, Philostephanus, Aristarchus, Apollodorus, Posidonius, Nicolaus, Apollonius Sophista...
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