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Amyntas (Antigonid General)
Amyntas is the name of several prominent Greek and Hellenistic men. It later became a stock name for lovelorn shepherds in 16th-century pastoral literature. The name is derived from Greek "amyntor" meaning "defender." Kings of Macedon *Amyntas I of Macedon, king of Macedon (c. 540–498 BC) *Amyntas II of Macedon, king of Macedon *Amyntas III of Macedon, king of Macedon (393–369 BC) *Amyntas IV of Macedon, king of Macedon (359 BC) Military figures *Amyntas (son of Andromenes), general of Alexander the Great, died in 330 BC * Amyntas (son of Antiochus), fugitive to Persians *Amyntas (son of Arrhabaeus), hipparchos * Amyntas (son of Alexander) *Amyntas, father of taxiarch Philip *Amyntas, father of Philip and first father-in-law of Berenice I of Egypt * Amyntas (Antigonid general), died in Cappadocia 301 BC *Amyntas of Rhodes, admiral against Demetrius Poliorcetes * Amyntas of Pieria, 2nd Thessalian praetor 194 BC * Amyntas of Mieza, somatophylax of Philip III Arrhidaeus * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amyntas I Of Macedon
Amyntas I (Greek: Ἀμύντας Aʹ; 498 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (c. 547 – 512 / 511 BC) and then a vassal of Darius I from 512/511 to his death 498 BC, at the time of Achaemenid Macedonia. He was a son of Alcetas I of Macedon. He married Eurydice and they had a son Alexander. Amyntas was a vassal of Darius I, king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, from 512/511 BC. Amyntas gave the present of "Earth and Water" to Megabazus, which symbolised submission to the Achaemenid Emperor. One of the daughters of Amyntas, named Gygaea, was married to the Persian General, called Bubares, possibly as a way of reinforcing the alliance. The history of Macedonia may be said to begin with Amyntas' reign. He was the first of its rulers to have diplomatic relations with other states. In particular, he entered into an alliance with Hippias of Athens, and when Hippias was driven out of Athens he offered him the territory of Anthemus on the Thermaic Gulf with the ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amyntas II (son Of Bubares)
Amyntas II was the son of the Persian official Bubares by his Macedonian wife Gygaea. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Amyntas I of Macedon, who ruled Macedonia as a Persian subject since 512/511 BC. Later, king Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BC) gave him the Carian city of Alabanda. Amyntas was possibly the direct successor of the tyrant Aridolis Aridolis ( grc, Ἀρίδωλις) was a tyrant of Alabanda in Caria, who accompanied the Achaemenid king Xerxes I in his expedition against Greece, and was taken by the Greeks off Artemisium in 480 BCE, and sent to the isthmus of Corinth C .... References Sources * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Amyntas II 6th-century BC Iranian people 5th-century BC Iranian people Achaemenid Macedon Iranian people of Greek descent 5th-century BC deaths Rulers in the Achaemenid Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclogue
An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. Overview The form of the word ''eclogue'' in contemporary English developed from Middle English , which came from Latin , which came from Greek () in the sense 'selection, literary product' (which was only one of the meanings it had in Greek). The term was applied metaphorically to short writings in any genre, including parts of a poetic sequence or poetry book. The ancients referred to individual pieces in Virgil's ''Bucolica'' as , and the term was used by later Latin poets to refer to their own pastoral poetry, often in imitation of Virgil. The combination of Virgil's influence and the persistence of pastoral poetry through the Renaissance imposed ''eclogues'' as the accepted term for the genre. Later Roman poets who wrote eclogues include Calpurnius and Nemesianus. Variations on a theme In 1526, the Italian Renaissance poet Jacopo Sannazaro published his ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Watson (poet)
Thomas Watson (1555–1592) was an English poet and translator, and the pioneer of the English madrigal. His lyrics aside, he wrote largely in Latin, also being the first to translate Sophocles's ''Antigone'' from Greek. His incorporation of Italianate forms into English lyric verse influenced a generation of English writers, including Shakespeare, who was referred to in 1595 by William Covell as "Watson's heyre" (heir). He wrote both English and Latin compositions, and was particularly admired for the Latin. His unusual 18-line sonnets were influential, although the form was not generally taken up. Early life Thomas Watson was born in mid-1555, probably in the parish of St Olave, Hart Street, London, to a prosperous London couple, William Watson and Anne Lee. His father's death in November 1559 was followed by his mother's in 1561, and Watson and his older brother went to live with their maternal uncle in Oxfordshire. From 1567, Watson attended Winchester College in Westminste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded '' The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt circle". Hunt also introduced John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson to the public. Hunt's presence at Shelley's funeral on the beach near Viareggio was immortalised in the painting by Louis Édouard Fournier. Hunt inspired aspects of the Harold Skimpole character in Charles Dickens' novel ''Bleak House''. Early life James Henry Leigh Hunt was born 19 October 1784, at Southgate, London, where his parents had settled after leaving the United States. His father, Isaac, a lawyer from Philadelphia, and his mother, Mary Shewell, a merchant's daughter and a devout Quaker, had been forced to come to Britain because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aminta
''Aminta'' is a play written by Torquato Tasso in 1573, represented during a garden party at the court of Ferrara. Both the actors and the public were noble persons living at the Court, who could understand subtle allusions the poet made to that style of life, in contrast with the life of shepherds, represented in an idyllic way. Text The text is written in hendecasyllabic and septenary verses; it is divided into five acts. The play has a pastoral theme, and is set in the time of Alexander the Great. The characters are shepherds and nymphs. The story is about Aminta's love for the beautiful nymph Silvia, who does not return his attentions and prefers hunting. She risks rape at the hands of a Satyr but Aminta saves her; however, again she flees from him. Aminta, finding her blood-stained veil, attempts to kill himself. Now Silvia is remorseful, comes back to cry over Aminta's body who is still alive, and the two can happily marry, following the advice that older and wiser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem (1099), Siege of Jerusalem of 1099. Tasso had mental illness and died a few days before he was to be Poet laureate, crowned on the Capitoline Hill as the king of poets by Clement VIII, Pope Clement VIII. His work was widely translated and adapted, and until the beginning of the 20th century, he remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe. Biography Early life Born in Sorrento, Torquato was the son of Bernardo Tasso, a nobleman of Bergamo and an epic and lyric poet of considerable fame in his day, and his wife Porzia de Rossi, a noblewoman born in Naples of Tuscany, Tuscan origins. His father had for many years been secretary in the service of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphiareion Of Oropos
The Amphiareion of Oropos ( el, Άμφιάρειο Ωρωπού), situated in the hills 6 km southeast of the fortified port of Oropos, was a sanctuary dedicated in the late 5th century BCE to the hero Amphiaraos, where pilgrims went to seek oracular responses and healing. It became particularly successful during the 4th century BCE, to judge from the intensive building at the site. The hero Amphiaraos was a descendant of the seer Melampos and initially refused to participate in the attack on Thebes (detailed in the ''Seven Against Thebes'' of Aeschylus) because he could foresee that it would be a disaster. In some versions of the myth, the earth opens and swallows the chariot of Amphiaraos, transforming him into a chthonic hero. Today the site is found east of the modern town Markopoulo Oropou in the Oropos municipality of Attica, Greece The sanctuary is located 37.2 km NNE of Athens at a sacred spring; it contained a temple of Amphiaraos (with an acrolithic cult sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amyntas (son Of Menophilos)
Amyntas is the name of several prominent Greek and Hellenistic men. It later became a stock name for lovelorn shepherds in 16th-century pastoral literature. The name is derived from Greek "amyntor" meaning "defender." Kings of Macedon * Amyntas I of Macedon, king of Macedon (c. 540–498 BC) * Amyntas II of Macedon, king of Macedon * Amyntas III of Macedon, king of Macedon (393–369 BC) *Amyntas IV of Macedon, king of Macedon (359 BC) Military figures *Amyntas (son of Andromenes), general of Alexander the Great, died in 330 BC * Amyntas (son of Antiochus), fugitive to Persians *Amyntas (son of Arrhabaeus), hipparchos * Amyntas (son of Alexander) *Amyntas, father of taxiarch Philip *Amyntas, father of Philip and first father-in-law of Berenice I of Egypt * Amyntas (Antigonid general), died in Cappadocia 301 BC * Amyntas of Rhodes, admiral against Demetrius Poliorcetes * Amyntas of Pieria, 2nd Thessalian praetor 194 BC * Amyntas of Mieza, somatophylax of Philip III Arrhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amyntas (bematist)
Amyntas is the name of several prominent Greek and Hellenistic men. It later became a stock name for lovelorn shepherds in 16th-century pastoral literature. The name is derived from Greek "amyntor" meaning "defender." Kings of Macedon * Amyntas I of Macedon, king of Macedon (c. 540–498 BC) * Amyntas II of Macedon, king of Macedon * Amyntas III of Macedon, king of Macedon (393–369 BC) *Amyntas IV of Macedon, king of Macedon (359 BC) Military figures *Amyntas (son of Andromenes), general of Alexander the Great, died in 330 BC * Amyntas (son of Antiochus), fugitive to Persians *Amyntas (son of Arrhabaeus), hipparchos * Amyntas (son of Alexander) *Amyntas, father of taxiarch Philip *Amyntas, father of Philip and first father-in-law of Berenice I of Egypt * Amyntas (Antigonid general), died in Cappadocia 301 BC * Amyntas of Rhodes, admiral against Demetrius Poliorcetes * Amyntas of Pieria, 2nd Thessalian praetor 194 BC * Amyntas of Mieza, somatophylax of Philip III Arrhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amyntas Of Heraclea
Amyntas is the name of several prominent Greek and Hellenistic men. It later became a stock name for lovelorn shepherds in 16th-century pastoral literature. The name is derived from Greek "amyntor" meaning "defender." Kings of Macedon * Amyntas I of Macedon, king of Macedon (c. 540–498 BC) * Amyntas II of Macedon, king of Macedon * Amyntas III of Macedon, king of Macedon (393–369 BC) *Amyntas IV of Macedon, king of Macedon (359 BC) Military figures *Amyntas (son of Andromenes), general of Alexander the Great, died in 330 BC * Amyntas (son of Antiochus), fugitive to Persians *Amyntas (son of Arrhabaeus), hipparchos * Amyntas (son of Alexander) *Amyntas, father of taxiarch Philip *Amyntas, father of Philip and first father-in-law of Berenice I of Egypt * Amyntas (Antigonid general), died in Cappadocia 301 BC * Amyntas of Rhodes, admiral against Demetrius Poliorcetes * Amyntas of Pieria, 2nd Thessalian praetor 194 BC * Amyntas of Mieza, somatophylax of Philip III Arrhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amyntas, Tetrarch Of The Tectosagii
Amyntas ( el, Ἀμύντας) was Tetrarch of the Tectosages and King of Cilicia Trachea between 36 BC and 25 BC. He was the predecessor of Polemon I of Pontus as King of Cilicia Trachea. Amyntas was a son of Dytilaos, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii. Amyntas was the father of a Princess of the Tectosagii who married Artemidoros of the Trocmii, son of Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Trocmii, King of Galatia. Through his daughter and her husband he was grandfather of Gaius Julius Severus, a nobleman from Akmonia at Galatia, in turn the father of Gaius Julius Bassus, Proconsul in Bithynia in 98, and Gaius Julius Severus, a Tribune in Legio VI ''Ferrata''. References *Christian Settipani Christian Settipani (born 31 January 1961) is a French genealogist, historian and IT professional, currently working as the Technical Director of a company in Paris. Biography Settipani holds a Master of Advanced Studies from the Paris-Sorbo ..., Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
