poets of ancient Greece. A few details of Philoxenus' life are known. According to the Suda, Philoxenus was the son of Eulytides, from Cythera. On the...
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Philoxenus or Philoxenos (Greek for "lover of foreigners" or "hospitable") is the name of several prominent ancient Greeks: Philoxenus of Cythera, an...
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Polyphemus (category Children of Poseidon)
juxtaposition for Philoxenus' audience. Philoxenus' Cyclops is also referred to in Aristotle's Poetics in a section that discusses representations of people in...
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Wonders of the World. The Olympian Zeus is about seven times life size (or 13 metres) and occupies the full height of the temple. Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek...
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poet Philoxenus of Cythera. A prominent but unnamed catena trends northeast from near the south rim of Philoxenus. The small crater Waters is east of Philoxenus...
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Phaethon (category Children of Helios)
have been known, the next mention possibly came from a lost work of Philoxenus of Cythera (435~434 – 380~379 BC), a dithyrambic poet. Pliny the Elder mentions...
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king of Sparta Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (b. 435 BC) Hakor, king of the Twenty-ninth dynasty of Egypt Nefaarud II, son of Hakor and...
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experiments of the poets of the 'new music'." This movement included the poets Timotheus of Miletus, Cinesias, Melanippides, and Philoxenus of Cythera. By the...
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Acis and Galatea (category Metamorphoses into bodies of water in Greek mythology)
the story was first concocted by Philoxenus of Cythera as a political satire against the Sicilian tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse, whose favourite concubine...
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Plato (comic poet) (category Year of birth unknown)
a lampoon of the work of Archestratus, although the speaker calls it "a book by Philoxenus", meaning either the poet Philoxenus of Cythera, the glutton...
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(magazine), a British underground comics magazine of the 1970s Cyclops, a comic poem by Philoxenus of Cythera Cyclops, an organization in David Brin's novel...
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Solon (redirect from Solon of Athens)
it was a type of 'flat cake'. Similar cakes are described by Philoxenus of Cythera. In Sicyon, Cleisthenes had usurped power on behalf of an Ionian minority...
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Ancient Greek cuisine (redirect from Diet of Ancient Greece)
religious reasons as well as secular. Philoxenus of Cythera describes in detail some cakes that were eaten as part of an elaborate dinner using the traditional...
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Cyclopes (category Deeds of Apollo)
by Philoxenus of Cythera, followed by several episodes by the Greek pastoral poets, created of him a comedic and generally unsuccessful lover of the...
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Minister of the State of Chu, also a servant of the State of Lu (born in Wei, 440 BC) 380 BC Agesipolis I, king of Sparta Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic...
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disciple of Philoxenus of Cythera. He is considered only worthy of notice as having once gained a victory over his great contemporary Timotheus of Miletus...
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II, king of Persia (approximate date) (d. 358 BC) 435 BC Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (d. 380 BC) 432 BC Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse...
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5th century BCE. Philoxenus of Cythera (435 BC–380 BC) a dithyrambic poet. Phocylides gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, born about...
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Kythira (redirect from Cythera (island))
[ˈciθira]), also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira, is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It...
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general) Philotas (musician) Philotes Philotimo Philoxenus (physician) Philoxenus of Cythera Philoxenus of Eretria Philyllius Philyra (mythology) Philyra...
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(22.9%) This is a list of named craters on Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System (for other features, see list of geological features on Mercury)...
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