• Cleomenes I (/kliːˈɒmɪniːz/; Greek Κλεομένης; died c. 490 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from c. 524 to c. 490 BC. One of the most important Spartan kings...
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  • was an Agiad king of Sparta from c. 560 BC to 524 BC, father of Leonidas I and grandfather of Pleistarchus. Under the leadership of the ephor Chilon...
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    nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink. A character in Aristophanes' Knights says, "I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia...
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  • Anaxandra – female artist of Sicyon Anaxandridas I – King of Sparta Anaxandridas II – King of Sparta Anaxandrides – philosopher Anaxarchus – philosopher Anaxidamus...
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    Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-861186-2. Herodotus 7.204, "(Leonides) Anaxandrides’ son, Leon’s son, Eurycratides’ son, Anaxandrus’ son, Eurycrates’ son...
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    Aristonous, Paean to Apollo Scholiast on Euripides, Alcestis. 1 citing Anaxandrides Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses...
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  • (mythology) Anaxagoras of Aegina Anaxander Anaxandra Anaxandridas I Anaxandridas II Anaxandrides Anaxarchus Anaxibia Anaxibius Anaxidamus Anaxilas (comic poet)...
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  • Eretria Achaeus of Syracuse Aeschylus Agathon Alexander Aetolus Alexis Anaxandrides Antiphanes Aphareus (writer) Apollodorus of Carystus Aristarchus of Tegea...
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    fit more for the northern barbarians. A play by the Greek comic poet Anaxandrides refers to Thracians as boutyrophagoi, "butter-eaters". In his Natural...
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  • taken from the courtesan, Anteia, who is mentioned by Demosthenes and Anaxandrides and who was also made the subject of comedies by Alexis and Antiphanes...
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    patrouchoi. Leonidas married the heiress of Cleomenes I, as her anchisteia, or next of kin, and Anaxandrides his own sister's daughter. Moreover, if a father...
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  • the Thracians of the northern Aegean coast, whom the Middle Comic poet Anaxandrides dubbed "butter eaters". Cheesemaking was widespread by the 8th Century...
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    (Introduction), Hackett Publishing 2000, p. xviii IG II2 2325. 143 (just after Anaxandrides and just before Eubulus) Aristophanes:Clouds K. J. Dover (ed), Oxford...
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