Epicles
Epicles (Epiklês) (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικλῆς) was the name of several prominent Ancient Greeks:
- Epicles, an Ancient Greek medical writer who lived after Bacchius, and therefore probably in the 2nd or 1st century BC. Epicles is quoted by Erotianus,[1] who wrote a commentary on the obsolete words found in the writings of Hippocrates, which he arranged in alphabetical order.
- Epicles of Troy, a Lycian or Trojan prince killed by Ajax.[2][3]
- Epicles of Hermione, a musician who played the lyre, mentioned by Plutarch.[4]
- Epicles, the eponymous archon of Athens of 131–130 BC
- Epicles, the father of Proteas, an Athenian admiral in the Peloponnesian War, mentioned by Thucydides.[5]
- Epicles of Thespiae, mentioned on a dedication at Delphi.[6]
- Epicleas, a Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War.[7]
References
[edit]- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: William Alexander Greenhill (1870). Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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- ^ Erotianus, Gloss. Hippocr. p. 16 (cited by Greenhill)
- ^ Homer, Iliad12, v, 378.
- ^ John Lemprière, Bibliotheca Classica: A Classical Dictionary(A. Strahan, 1801).
- ^ John Langhorne, William Langhorne, Plutarch's Lives, (Google eBook) Plutarch, (Thomas & Andrews, Boston, 1804) page 270.
- ^ Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II: 6.
- ^ The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis Book XIII Concerning Women (Page III) Archived 2014-07-06 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Martin Hammond, The Peloponnesian War (Google eBook) (Oxford University Press, 2009) VIII 108.