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List Of People From Crete
The following is a list of people from the island of Crete in southern Greece. Ancient Mythology ''See also :Cretan mythology and History of Crete'' * Acacallis daughter of Minos. * Aerope granddaughter of Minos. *Androgeus son of Minos. * Ariadne daughter of Minos. * Asterion first king of Crete. * Bianna immigrant to ancient Gaul. * Catreus son of Minos. * Deucalion son of Minos, father of Idomeneus. * Dictys Cretensis legendary companion of Idomeneus, and the alleged author of a diary. * Glaucus (son of Minos) * Idomeneus son of Deucalion. He led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War in the side of Achaeans. *Minos son of Asterion, king of Crete and judge in the Greek underworld. *Rhadamanthus son of Asterion, king of Crete and judge in the Greek underworld. * Zeus father of the gods of Olympus, god of the sky, thunder and lightning. Dorian Archaic era * Thaletas early musician and lyric poet * Epimenides (6th century BC) seer and philosopher-poet * Chersiphron and Metagene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crete
Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete rests about south of the Greek mainland, and about southwest of Anatolia. Crete has an area of and a coastline of 1,046 km (650 mi). It bounds the southern border of the Aegean Sea, with the Sea of Crete (or North Cretan Sea) to the north and the Libyan Sea (or South Cretan Sea) to the south. Crete and a number of islands and islets that surround it constitute the Region of Crete ( el, Περιφέρεια Κρήτης, links=no), which is the southernmost of the 13 top-level administrative units of Greece, and the fifth most populous of Greece's regions. Its capital and largest city is Heraklion, on the north shore of the island. , the region had a population of 636,504. The Dodecanese are located to the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thaletas
Thaletas or Thales of Crete (Greek: Θαλῆς or Θαλήτας) was an early Greek musician and lyric poet. Biography Historicity The position of Thaletas is one of the most interesting, and at the same time most difficult points, in that most interesting and difficult subject, the early history of Greek music and poetry. The most certain fact known of him is that he introduced from Crete into Sparta certain principles or elements of music and rhythm, which did not exist in Terpander's system, and thereby founded the second of the musical schools which flourished at Sparta. He was a native of Crete, and, according to the best writers, of the city of Gortyna. In Sparta In compliance, according to tradition, with an invitation which the Spartans sent to him in obedience to an oracle, he removed to Sparta, where, by the sacred character of his paeans, and the humanizing influence of his music, he appeased the wrath of Apollo, who had visited the city with a plague, and compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nearchus
Nearchus or Nearchos ( el, Νέαρχος; – 300 BC) was one of the Greek officers, a navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. He is known for his celebrated expeditionary voyage starting from the Indus River, through the Persian Gulf and ending at the mouth of the Tigris River following the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great, in 326–324 BC. Early life A native of Lato in Crete and son of Androtimus, his family settled at Amphipolis in Macedonia at some point during Philip II's reign (we must assume after Philip took the city in 357 BC), at which point Nearchus was probably a young boy. He was almost certainly older than Alexander, as were Ptolemy, Erigyius, and the others of the ‘boyhood friends’; so depending on when Androtimus came to Macedonia Nearchus was quite possibly born in Crete. Nearchus, along with Ptolemy, Erigyius and Laomedon, and Harpalus, was one of Alexander's ‘mentors’ – and he was exiled by Philip as a result of the Pixodarus affair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurybotas
Eurybotas ( grc, Ευρυβώτας) of Crete was the toxarch (τοξάρχης), meaning captain of the archers, in the army of Alexander the Great, a position to which he may have been summoned already by the Philip II, when he planned his Asiatic campaign. Eurybotas was killed, along with seventy of his men, in the Siege of Thebes in 335 BC. His successor appears to have been Ombrion (Ὀμβρίον) of Crete. Cretan archer Cretan archers were a well known class of warrior whose specialist skills were extensively utilized in both ancient and medieval warfare. They were especially valued in armies, such as those of the Greek city-states, (such as Athens, Sparta, Eretri ...s were highly skilled and were an essential part of Greek military tactics. The Cretan archers were generally mercenaries. References *Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel 4th-century BC Greek people 335 BC deaths Ancient Cretan generals Generals of Alexander the Great Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sotades Of Crete
Sotades of Crete was an ancient Olympic runner. Career Winner in the long distance race, the dolichos of 384 BC. Afterwards Sotades was bribed by the Ephesians to be proclaimed as a citizen of Ephesos (Ephesus) and was subsequently exiled by the Cretans. Sotades competed again as a citizen of Ephesus in 380 BC. References *Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to: *Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium'' *Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC *Pausanias of Sicily, physician of th ... 6.18.6; A 227 *''Sport and spectacle in the ancient world'' by Donald G. Kyle. Page 131. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sotades Of Crete Ancient Greek runners Ancient Cretan athletes Ancient Olympic competitors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simonides
Simonides of Ceos (; grc-gre, Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556–468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born in Ioulis on Kea (island), Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of the nine lyric poets esteemed by them as worthy of critical study. Included on this list were Bacchylides, his nephew, and Pindar, reputedly a bitter rival, both of whom benefited from his innovative approach to lyric poetry. Simonides, however, was more involved than either in the major events and with the personalities of their times. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lessing, writing in the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment era, referred to him as "the Greek Voltaire." His general renown owes much to traditional accounts of his colourful life, as one of the wisest of men; as a greedy miser; as an inventor of a system of mnemonics; and the inventor of some letters of the History of the Greek alphabet, Greek alphabet (). Such accounts include fanciful element ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kresilas
Kresilas ( gr, Κρησίλας ''Krēsílas''; c. 480 – c. 410 BC) was a Ancient Greece, Greek Sculpture, sculptor in the Classical Greece, Classical period (5th century BC), from Kydonia. He was trained in Argos and then worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian War, as a follower of the idealistic portraiture of Myron. He is best known for his statue Pericles with the Corinthian helmet. Biography Kresilas hailed from the city-state of Kydonia, on the island of Crete. He was trained in Ancient Argos, Argos as a student of Dorotheos (sculptor), Dorotheos, with whom he worked at Delphi and Ermioni, Hermione.Giuliano 1987, p. 686 Between 450 and 420 BC he worked mainly in Athens, as a follower of Myron's school and in the post-Phidias period he brought elements of compactness due to the Peloponnesian period. Roman writer Pliny the Elder wrote of a competition between the four sculptors Polykleitos, Phidias, Kresilas, and Phradmon, on the best statues of Amazons for the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ergoteles Of Himera
Ergoteles ( grc, Ἐργοτέλης) or Ergotelis, was a native of Knossos and Olympic runner in the Ancient Olympic Games. Civil disorder (ancient Greek: Stasis) had compelled him to leave Crete. He came to Sicily and was naturalized as a citizen of Himera. He won the Olympic dolichos ("long race") of 472 BC and 464 BC, as well as winning twice in both Pythian and Isthmian Games. A four-line inscribed epigram of c. 450 BC found in Olympia commemorates the six Ergotelian victories. The base of an inscribed statue at Olympia, which was seen and exploited by the geographer Pausanias, was rediscovered in 1953. Pindar honoured Ergoteles with the following Epinikion hymn: Namesake The Gymnastics Club Ergotelis established in 1929 in Heraklion, Crete, was named after Ergoteles, in commemoration of the first Olympic champion native to the modern Heraklion prefecture Heraklion ( el, Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ηρακλείου) is one of the four regional units o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hybrias
Hybrias ( el, Ὑβρίας) (fl. 6th century BC) was a Crete, Cretan mercenary and lyric poetry, lyric poet. He was the author of a highly esteemed skolion (drinking song) called the "Spear-song", which has been preserved by Athenaeus (XV, pp. 695–696), Eustathius of Thessalonica (''Commentary on the Odyssey'', p. 47 & p. 276) and the ''Greek Anthology''. In this piece, Hybrias proclaimed himself a great warrior: "I have great wealth – a spear, a sword and a fine shield to save my skin. With these I plough, I reap, I tread the sweet grapes and am called master of my serfs. All those that dare not hold the spear and sword and fine shield to save their skin, all bow and kiss my knee, calling me master and great king". References Public domain sources (PDS) * Ancient Cretan poets Ancient Greek lyric poets Ancient Greek mercenaries Dorian Crete Skolia {{AncientGreece-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dipoenus And Scyllis
Dipoenus ( grc, Διποίνος) and Scyllis ( grc, Σκύλλις) were early ancient Greek sculptors from Crete who worked together and were said to have been pupils of Daedalus. Pliny assigns to them the date 580 BC, and says that they worked at Sicyon, which city from their time onwards became one of the great schools of sculpture. They also made statues for Cleonae and Argos. They worked in wood Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin th ..., ebony and ivory, and apparently also in marble. References {{EB1911 article with no significant updates 6th-century BC Greek sculptors Ancient Cretan sculptors Groups of ancient Greeks Art duos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristocles (sculptors)
Aristocles ( grc-gre, Ἀριστοκλῆς, ''Aristoklēs'') is a name attributed to two sculptors in Ancient Greece, as well as a nominal hereditary school of sculpture, started by the elder Aristocles, known to us primarily through different passages in Pausanias. *Aristocles of Cydonia was one of the most ancient sculptors; and though his age cannot be clearly fixed, it is certain that he flourished before Zancle was called Messene.Pausanias, v. 25. § 6 That is, before 494 BC. He was called both a Cydonian and a Sicyonian, probably because he was born at Cydonia and practiced and taught his art in Sicyon. *Aristocles of Sicyon was the grandson of the above, as well as the pupil and son of Cleoetas,Pausanias, v. 24. § 1 and brother of Canachus. He was not much inferior to his father in reputation. This Aristocles had a pupil, Synnoön, who was the father and teacher of Ptolichus of Aegina. We are also told, in an epigram by Antipater Sidonius that this Aristocles made on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Of Artemis
The Temple of Artemis or Artemision ( gr, Ἀρτεμίσιον; tr, Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis (identified with Diana, a Roman goddess). It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). By 401 AD it had been ruined or destroyed. Only foundations and fragments of the last temple remain at the site. The earliest version of the temple (a Bronze Age ''temenos'') antedated the Ionic immigration by many years. Callimachus, in his ''Hymn to Artemis'', attributed it to the Amazons. In the 7th century BC, it was destroyed by a flood. Its reconstruction, in more grandiose form, began around 550 BC, under Chersiphron, the Cretan architect, and his son Metagenes. The project was funded by Croesus of Lydia, and took 10 years to complete. This version of the temple was destroyed in 356 BC by Herostratus in an act of arson. The next, greatest, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
