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Archelaus (poet) Archelaus ( grc, Ἀρχέλαος) was the author of a poem consisting of upwards of three hundred Greek iambics, entitled Περὶ τῆς ῾Ιερᾶς Τέχνης (''Perì tês Hierâs Tékhnēs'', in Latin "De Sacra Arte"). Nothing is kno ...

, author of a long poem in iambics called "Περὶ τῆς ῾Ιερᾶς Τέχνης" * Archelaus (geographer), author of a work on the countries visited by Alexander the Great *Archelaus,

rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

ian mentioned by

Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...

(2.17) * Archelaus of Sparta (r. 790–760 BC), Agiad king of Sparta * Archelaus (philosopher) (fl. 5th century BC), pupil of Anaxagoras * Archelaus (son of Amyntas) (4th century BC), illegitimate son of Amyntas III of Macedon * Archelaus I of Macedon (r. 413–399 BC), king of Macedon *

Archelaus II of Macedon Archelaus II ( grc, Ἀρχέλαος, Archélaos) succeeded his uncle Aeropus II and reigned one year. Although according to the ''Chronicon'' he reigned four years. He died while out hunting, either by accident or assassination. He was brother ...

(r. 395–394 BC), king of Macedon * Archelaus (son of Androcles) (fl. 321 BC), phrourarch of Aornus *

Archelaus (phrourarch) Archelaus was a Macedonian phrourarch of Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre appointed by Perdiccas or Alexander in 323-321 BC. Perdiccas had left 800 attic talent, talents with him in 321 BC for safe keeping, which he turned over to Attalus (son of Andromenes) a ...

(fl. 326 BC), phrourarch of Tyre * Archelaus of Priene (fl. c. 300 BC), an ancient Greek sculptor * Archelaus Chersonesita (fl. 3rd century BC), Egyptian epigrammatist * Archelaus (Pontic army officer) (died 63 BC), general of Mithridates VI of Pontus *

Archelaus (high priest of Comana Cappadocia) Archelaus I ( el, Ἀρχέλαος Α΄ ; fl. 1st century BC, died January/February 55 BC) was a high priest of the temple-state of Comana, Cappadocia. Family background Archelaus was a Cappadocian Greek nobleman, possibly of Macedonian descent ...

(died 55 BC), priest of Bellona in Comana, Cappadocia *

Archelaus (father of Archelaus of Cappadocia) Archelaus may refer to: Historical persons *Archelaus (poet), author of a long poem in iambics called "Περὶ τῆς ῾Ιερᾶς Τέχνης" * Archelaus (geographer), author of a work on the countries visited by Alexander the Great *Arc ...

(fl. 55–47 BC), priest of Bellona in Comana, Cappadocia *

Archelaus of Cappadocia Archelaus ( el, Ἀρχέλαος; fl. 1st century BC and 1st century, died 17 AD) was a Roman client prince and the last king of Cappadocia. Family and early life Archelaus was a Cappadocian Greek nobleman. His full name was ''Archelaus Sisin ...

(r. 36 BC – 17 AD), king of Cappadocia *

Herod Archelaus Herod Archelaus (, ''Hērōidēs Archelaos''; 23 BC – ) was ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, including the cities Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea and Jaffa, for a period of nine years (). He was the son of Herod the Great and Mal ...

(23 BC – c. 18 AD), ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, 4 BC – 6 AD *

Archelaus of Cilicia Archelaus ( el, Ἀρχέλαος; born before 8 BC; died 38 AD) was a Cappadocian princeTacitus, Annals, 6.41 and a Roman client king of Cilicia Trachea and Eastern Lycaonia.Levick, ''Tiberius the Politician'', p.110 He is sometimes called ''Arch ...

(died 38 AD), king of Cicilia Trachaea and Eastern Lycaonia from 17 AD *Archelaus the deacon (died 235 AD), third-century saint martyred with

Quiriacus of Ostia Quiriacus was Bishop of Ostia, and suffered martyrdom during the reign of Emperor Severus Alexander. Quiriacus was martyred along with Maximus, his priest, and Archelaus, a deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christia ...

Archelaus (bishop of Carrhae) Archelaus ( grc, Ἀρχέλαος) was the bishop of Carrhae. In 278 AD, he held a public dispute with a number of Manichaeans -- that is, followers of Mani -- an account of which he published in Syriac. The work was soon translated both into Gr ...

(fl. 278 AD), bishop who held a public dispute with Manichaean heretics *

Archelaus (bishop of Caesarea) Archelaus ( grc, Ἀρχέλαος) was bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia around the 5th century CE. Works Archelaus wrote a work against the heresy of the Messalians -- that is, the sect called the Euchites -- which is referred to by Photius. Schol ...

(fl. 5th century AD), bishop who wrote against the Messalian heresy *

Archelaus Tupper The Haldimand Affair (also called the Haldimand or Vermont Negotiations) was a series of negotiations conducted in the early 1780s (late in the American Revolutionary War) between Frederick Haldimand, the British governor of the Province of Quebe ...

(died 1781) sergeant in the Vermont militia, the circumstances of whose death resulted in the secret armistice between the

Vermont Republic The Vermont Republic ( French: ''République du Vermont''), officially known at the time as the State of Vermont ( French: ''État du Vermont''), was an independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791. The ...

the British becoming publicly known

Mythical persons

Archelaus (son of Temenus) Archelaus ( grc, Ἀρχέλαος means "leading the people, chief") was in Greek mythology a son of Temenus, a Heraclid, who, when expelled by his brothers, fled to king Cisseus in Macedonia. Cisseus promised him the succession to his throne a ...

*Archelaus, son of

Heracles Heracles ( ; grc-gre, Ἡρακλῆς, , glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adoptive ...

*Archelaus, son of Electryon and Anaxo, killed by the sons of Pterelaus *Archelaus, son of

Aegyptus In Greek mythology, Aegyptus or Ægyptus (; grc, Αἴγυπτος) was a legendary king of ancient Egypt. He was a descendant of the princess Io through his father Belus, and of the river-god Nilus as both the father of Achiroe, his mother ...

. He was killed by his wife, Anaxibia, daughter of Danaus

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* ''Archelaus'' (play) by Euripides

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