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Robert Browning
The name of a lexicon, not an author: the word is a Latin loanword, and means Fortress or Stronghold: see F. Dölger, Der Titel der Suda (1936), who instances other fanciful names for reference works, e.g. Pamphilus' Λειμών (Meadow). The lexicon, which is a historical encyclopaedia rather than a mere word-list, was compiled about the end of the 10th cent.
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Nigel Wilson
A commentary with ὑποθέσεις (see
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Donald Russell
Rhetorician and Neoplatonist philosopher (See
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Jan Kwapisz
The term technopaignia is primarily used with reference to the six Greek figure poems of the Palatine Anthology (Anth. Pal. 15.21–22, 24–27); in likely chronological order, these are Axe, Wings of Eros, and Egg by Simias of Rhodes, Syrinx, attributed to Theocritus, and two Altars. The lines of these poems vary in length, through metrical manipulation, to form the outlines of the described objects. The emergence of pattern poetry in the Hellenistic period reflects the broader penchant for bridging art and literature and was due to the development of book culture, including in particular the tradition of metrical experimentalism. The term technopaignia is at times extended to include Roman picture poems, such as the fragmentarily attested figure poem Phoenix by Laevius, a snake-shaped graffito poem from Pompeii (CIL IV 1595), and the highly refined visual poetry of Optatianus Porfyrius. The six Greek technopaignia and the grid poems of Optatianus Porfyrius are followed by a long line of imitators in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and beyond. The term technopaignia is also used more generally for all sorts of ancient linguistic games.
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Alexander Hugh McDonald and Kenneth S. Sacks
Wrote several books about the contemporary near east, including coverage of Pompey's settlement in 63–62. His Περὶ χρυσοφόρου γῆς (‘On the Gold-Producing Land’) does not necessarily identify him with *Teucer(4) of Babylon.
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Thaletas of Gortyn, in *Crete (Paus. 1. 14. 4), worked at Sparta in the 7th cent.