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  Achaeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Achaeus, a tragic poet of Eretria who wrote forty-five tragedies, some of whose titles are preserved (e.g.
Achaeus of Syracuse was another tragic poet who wrote ten or fourteen tragedies.
Achaeus, a relative of Antiochus III the Great who was appointed governor of all the king's provinces beyond Taurus.
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 Crete
Achaeus and his army were forced to retreat into the city of Sardis, and Antiochus troops were camped almost all the way around the city in siege.
Achaeus figured that once he had escaped he could travel quickly back to Syria, while Antiochus was still occupied in the siege of Sardis, and create a great movement in his favor.
Achaeus was indeed doing his best; but he did not consider that, as the saying goes, he was trying to play the Cretan with a Cretan.
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 CLASSICS - LoveToKnow Article on CLASSICS
Another generation passed, and the scholars of the East and West met at the council of Florence (1439) One of the envoys of the Greeks, Gemistus Pletho, then inspired Cosimo dei Medici with the thought of founding an academy for the study of Plato.
The general effect of the recominendations already made would be to begin the study of foreign languages with French, and to postpone the study of Latin to the, age of twelve and that of Greek to the age of thirteen.
A modern education is also the aim of the general introduction to the nova methodus of Leibnitz, where the study of Greek is recommended solely for the sake of the Greek Testament (1666).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CL/CLASSICS.htm   (17832 words)

  
 Index of names: Ab - Ac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
228/5_ Aristomachus is elected general of the Achaean League.
225/5_ Timoxenus is elected general of the Achaean League.
216/12 Timoxenus is elected to be general of the Achaean League.
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 Ancestors of Kathleen A. Harr - Person Page 22   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Achaeus of Syria was the son of Selucus I Nicator of Syria and Apama of Baktria.
(w-o Achaeus of Syria) married Achaeus of Syria, son of Selucus I Nicator of Syria and Apama of Baktria.
(w-o Achaeus of Syria) and Achaeus of Syria:
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~lawrpaul/harrancs-p/p22.htm   (5254 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 8 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Achaeus himself married Laodice, the daughter of Mithri-dates, king of Pontus.
Achaeus re­covered for the Syrian empire all the districts which Attains had gained ; but having been falsely accused by Hermeias, the minister of Antiochus, of intending to revolt, he did so in self-defence, assumed the title of king, and ruled over the whole of Asia on this side of the Taurus.
ACHAEUS (sAxa«fe) of Eretria in Euboea, a tragic poet, was born b.
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 Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 225
General Miltiades III (?) was archon of Athens BC 524 at Athens, Greece.
Hegesipyle I (?) married General Miltiades III (?), son of Cimon I (?).
Isodice (?) married General Cimon II (?), son of General Miltiades III (?) and Hegesipyle I (?).
www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/p225.htm   (2616 words)

  
 EZGeography - Eponym   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Both in ancient Greece and independently among the Hebrews, a legendary leader of a tribe gave his name to it (as Achaeus for Achaeans, or Dorus for Dorians).
The eponym gave apparent meaning to the mysterious names of tribes, and sometimes, as in the Sons of Noah, provided a primitive attempt at ethnology too, in the genealogical relationships of eponymous originators.
This is a point of frequent confusion, especially because words ending in "-onym" generally refer to the word itself.
www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Eponym   (399 words)

  
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Achaeus, the counsellor of King Antiochus [Eunus], being far from pleased at the conduct of the runaway slaves, censured them for their recklessness and boldly warned them that they would meet with speedy punishment.
At last vengeance was taken on them by our general Perperna for having conquered them, and at last besieged them in Enna, and reduced them with famine as with a pestilence, he threw the remainder of the marauders into chains, and then crucified them.
In general there was turmoil in the cities, and a confounding of all justice under law.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm   (11725 words)

  
 Euripides, Ion (U. of Saskatchewan)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
One of his sons, Achaeus, returned to his father's homeland, Thessaly, and became the eponymous forefather of the Achaeans; the other, Ion, was recalled to Athens, where he died leading Athens in its war against Eleusis.
Xuthus and Creusa produce the sons Dorus and Achaeus; Ion, however, is the son of Creusa and Apollo.
Generally, these plays involve long lost siblings, a mother and child, or (in the case of Helen) a husband and wife who meet one another, after a separation of many years, in a foreign land and/or amid dangerous circumstances.
duke.usask.ca /~porterj/CourseNotes/IonBckgnd.html   (1333 words)

  
 Attalus I
A courageous and capable general and loyal ally of Rome, he played a significant role in the first and second Macedonian Wars, waged against Philip V of Macedon.
Achaeus, who had accompanied Seleucus III, assumed control of the army.
He was offered and refused the kingship in favor of Seleucus III's younger brother Antiochus III the Great, who then made Achaeus governor of Seleucid Asia Minor north of the Taurus.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/AttalusI.html   (2753 words)

  
 Attalus I Details, Meaning Attalus I Article and Explanation Guide
After a period of peace, in 218 BC, while Achaeus was involved in an expedition to Selge south of the Taurus, Attalus, with some Thracian Gauls, recaptured his former territories.
However Achaeus returned from victory in Selge in 217 BC and resumed hostilities with Attalus.
In 211 BC, a treaty was signed between Rome and the Aetolian League, a provision of which allowed for the inclusion of certain allies of the League, Attalus being one of these.
www.e-paranoids.com /a/at/attalus_i.html   (2931 words)

  
 ERETRIA - LoveToKnow Article on ERETRIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The latter, through their general Phocion, rescued it from the tyrants suborned by Philip of Macedon (354 and 341).
Eretria was the birthplace of the tragedian Achaeus and of the Megarian philosopher Menedemus.
The modern village, which is sometimes called Nea Psar because the inhabitants of Psarh were transferred there in 1821, is on unhealthy low-lying ground near the sea.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/ER/ERETRIA.htm   (356 words)

  
 Antiochus III Megas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
He retained from the previous administration Hermias as chief minister, Achaeus as governor of Asia Minor, and Molon and his brother Alexander as governors of the eastern provinces, Media and Persis.
In alliance with Attalus I of Pergamum, Antiochus captured Achaeus in 213 in his capital, Sardis, and had him executed in a barbaric manner.
Antiochus invaded Coele Syria, defeated the Ptolemaic general Scopas at Panion near the source of the Jordan River in the year 200, gained control of Palestine, and granted special rights to the Jewish temple state.
www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /antiochus-III.htm   (1314 words)

  
 220 B.C. - events and references
Timoxenus, the general of the Achaean League, captures Clarium, a fort near Megalopolis which had been occupied by the Aetolians.
Achaeus assumes the title of king, while marching through Phrygia.
Scopas is elected general of the Aetolian League.
www.attalus.org /bc3/year220.html   (469 words)

  
 Achaemenid dynasty - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Achaemenid dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The twenty satrapies were linked by a 2,500-kilometer highway, the most impressive stretch being the royal road from Susa to Sardis, built by command of Darius.
Materials and artists were drawn from all the lands ruled by the Great King, and thus tastes, styles, and motifs became mixed together in an eclectic art and architecture that in itself mirrored the empire and the Persians' understanding of how that empire ought to function.
Just as the Achaemenids were tolerant in matters of local government and custom, as long as Persians controlled the general policy and administration of the empire, so also were they tolerant in art so long as the finished and total effect was Persian.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Achaemenid-dynasty.html   (1817 words)

  
 William Smith : A Smaller History of [Ancient] Greece - Origin of the Greeks, Heroic Age
It was a general practice in antiquity to invent fictitious persons for the purpose of explaining names of which the origin was buried in obscurity.
It was a general belief among them that the Pelasgians were reclaimed from barbarism by Oriental strangers, who settled in the country and introduced among the rude inhabitants the first elements of civilization.
Argos, in like manner, is said to have been founded by the Egyptian Danaus, who fled to Greece with his fifty daughters, to escape from the persecution of their suitors, the fifty sons of his brother AEgyptus.
www.ellopos.net /elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/history-of-ancient-greece-2-origin.asp   (2733 words)

  
 Games Fresh : Article 'Cimon'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Cimon was very wealthy and lived lavishly, he was also very generous to the people, opening his house to all and feeding the hungry.
The fact that the Aeginetan scale of coins, weights and measures was one of the two scales in general use in the Greek world is sufficient evidence of the early commercial importance of the island.
Lacedaimonius was an Athenian general, the son of Cimon.
www.games-fresh.net /DisplayArticle36911.html   (1635 words)

  
 LYDIA - LoveToKnow Article on LYDIA
The statement is on the whole borne out by the few Lydian, Mysian and Carian words that have been preserved, as well as by the general character of the civilization prevailing among the three nations.
Sardis now became the western capital of the Persian empire, and its burning by the Athenians was the indirect cause of the Persian War.
After Alexander the Great's death, Lydia passed to Antigonus; then Achaeus made himself king at Sardis, but was defeated and put to death by Antiochus.
16.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LY/LYDIA.htm   (2641 words)

  
 PERSONNAGES DE L'ÉPOQUE GB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The peace terms proposed by the general and adopted by the Senate specified that Philip could retain his throne but must abandon all his dependencies outside Macedonia.
In 189 he served as censor, and in 183 he was sent to Prusias, king of Bithynia, to demand the surrender of the Carthaginian general Hannibal.
This was, O stranger, once Rome's star divine, Claudius Marcellus of an ancient line; To fight her wars seven times her consul made, Low in the dust her enemies he laid.
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 Brink-Day-Johnston-Fletcher - Person Page 155
Andromachus was a general in the Syrian army.
In the resulting coalition war (315-311), Seleucuswas made one of Ptolemy's generals and jointly with him commanded thePtolemaic troops that defeated the force of Demetrius, the son ofAntigonus, at the Battle of Gaza in southern Syria (312).
Hisreign, though generally peaceful, was disturbed by several insurrections,the first of which was the revolt of his brother the satrap of Bactria.More dangerous was the rebellion of Egypt under Inaros, who receivedassistance from the Athenians.
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 Deals with Pen Scratches
Then Kennaston was in Alexandria when John the Grammarian pleaded with the victorious Arabian general Amrou to spare the royal library, the sole repository at this period of many of the masterworks of Greek and Roman literature.
They would fare better than Agathon and Ion and Achaeus, their admitted equals in splendor, whose whole life-work was passing, at the feet of Horvendile, into complete oblivion.
Here was beauty, and wit, and learning, and genius, being wasted--quite wantonly--never to be recaptured, never to be equaled again (despite the innumerable painstaking penmen destined to fret the hearts of unborn wives), and never, in the outcome, to be thought of as a very serious loss to anybody, after all....
www.uwm.edu /People/mrdunn/cream.frames/cream24.html   (731 words)

  
 achaeus - a summary of who we are and what we do   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Achaeus is the Internet name for a design consultancy established in South Wales by Anthony Smyth.
From this work he progressed to projects for the National Health Services: in design teams for General Hospitals in Northampton and Oxford, a premature Baby Unit in South London, and a design for the largest Maternity Teaching Hospital of its day.
Hospital designs are highly specialised and a great deal of a design brief is constructed in collaboration with medical working parties.
www.achaeus.co.uk /summary.html   (276 words)

  
 Business Fresh : Article 'General ledger'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The general ledger, sometimes known as the nominal ledger, is the main accounting record of a business which uses double-entry bookkeeping.
The general ledger is a summary of all of the transactions that occur in the company.
The general ledger is where posting occurs, which is the process of recording credits and debits in the general ledger.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Greek & Roman Mythology (A-Ac)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In Greek mythology, Acestes was a Sicilian bowman who in a trial of skill discharge an arrow with such force that it ignited.
In Greek mythology, Achaeus was a son of Xuthus and Creusa.
He returned to Thessaly and recovered the dominions of which his father had been deprived.
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 [No title]
Nations in general, even under governments of the more popular kind, usually commit the administration of their finances to single men or to boards composed of a few individuals, who digest and prepare, in the first instance, the plans of taxation, which are afterwards passed into laws by the authority of the sovereign or legislature.
The jurisdiction of her several courts, general and local, of law, of equity, of admiralty, etc., is not less a source of frequent and intricate discussions, sufficiently denoting the indeterminate limits by which they are respectively circumscribed.
The tenure of the ministerial offices generally, will be a subject of legal regulation, conformably to the reason of the case and the example of the State constitutions.
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 List of ancient Greeks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clearchus - two; Spartan general, Middle Comedy poet
Lycophron - three; poet, son of Periander, Spartan general
Theagenes of Thebes - general who fell at the battle of Chaeronea
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 www.eXecutZ.com - User talk:Paul August   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
But for the general case of the disjoint union of say two possibly non-disjoint sets, then I don't see how to represent that.
General words like "the study of quantity, structure, space and change" may be applied to physics or engineering or almost anything as well, and give no impact into distinguishing math activity.
His editing has generally brought good content to WP (I like his contributions to History of logic in particular), and I think we should be encouraging him.
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 MythHome: Children of Poseidon
Larisa is daughter of Pelasgus, son of Triopas, son of Phorbas, son of Argus, son of Zeus and Niobe, the daughter of Phoroneus the first man. Achaeus is the eponym of the district called Achaea
This Aeolus is said to have come in possession of the islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea which are called Aeolian after him.
Cychreus became king of Salamis through killing a snake which ravaged the island and bequeathed the kingdom to Telamon, father of Ajax.
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 Deucalion
Plato, through the mouth of Critias, refers to the story of Deucalion in the prologue of the Timæus (22b) and again in the Critias (112a).
To Perseus general lookup, encyclopedia, mentions in ancient authors.
Plato and his dialogues : Home - Biography - Works - History of interpretation - New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version.
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