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Anaxilas (2), Greek poet of Middle Comedy, mid-4th cent. BCE
Kenneth Dover
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Anaximenes (2), of Lampsacus, historian and rhetorician, c. 380–320 BCE
Donald Russell
Anaximenes (2) of Lampsacu (c. 380–320
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Anaxippus, New Comedy poet
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Andreas, d. 217 BCE
Antony Spawforth
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anecdote
Simon Goldhill
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Anonymus Antatticista
M. B. Trapp
Anonymus Antatticista (Ἀνταττικιστής), a contemporary opponent of *Phrynichus (3) the Atticist, who cites from good, but not always Attic, writers many words which Phrynichus condemns.
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Anonymus Seguerianus
M. B. Trapp
Anonymus Seguerianus wrote a treatise on the formal style (πολιτικὸς λόγος), which contains frequent references to the work of *Alexander (12) son of Numenius.
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Antagoras of Rhodes
Richard Hunter
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anthology
Alan Douglas Edward Cameron and P. J. Parsons
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Antidorus, of Cyme, c. 300 BCE
John Francis Lockwood and Nigel Wilson
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Antigenes
Bernhard Zimmermann
Antigenes, Attic *dithyrambic poet, who wrote a dedicatory poem for tripods won at the Dionysian competition (see
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Antigone (1)
Andrew Brown
Antigone (1), daughter of *Oedipus and Iocasta, sister of *Eteocles, Polynices and Ismene.
*Sophocles (1)'s Antigone deals with events after the Theban War, in which Eteocles and Polynices killed one another (see
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Antigonus (4), of Carystus, writer and bronze-worker, fl. c. 240 BCE
Frank William Walbank and Andrew F. Stewart
Antigonus (4) of Carystus (fl. c. 240 BCE), writer and bronzeworker, lived at Athens and (apparently) at *Pergamum.
An inferior anecdotal collection survives: (a) Ἱστοριῶν παραδόξων συναγωγή, collection of paradoxical stories (see
A reliable biographer (see
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Antimachus, of Colophon, Greek poet and scholar
F. Williams
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Antinous (1), mythical suitor of Penelope in the Odyssey
Nicholas J. Richardson
Antinous (1), son of Eupeithes (Od. 1. 383), ringleader of *Penelope's suitors, and first to be killed by *Odysseus, whose kingship he is said to have wished to usurp (Od. 22. 8–53).
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Antipater (3), of Sidon, Greek poet of epigrams, 2nd cent. BCE
Alan Douglas Edward Cameron and Christopher Pelling
Antipater (3), of Sidon, author of about 75 mainly funerary or ecphrastic epigrams in the Greek Anthology (see
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Antipater (5), of Thessalonica, Greek poet of epigrams, end of 1st cent. BCE
Alan Douglas Edward Cameron
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Antiphanes
Kenneth Dover
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Antiphon (3), Greek tragic poet
Andrew Brown
Antiphon (3), tragic poet put to death by *Dionysius (1) I of Syracuse (Arist. Rh. 2. 6). Anecdotes belonging to him are attached to *Antiphon (1) in the biographical tradition (Philostr. VS 1. 15. 3, etc. ).
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Antonius Diogenes
Ewen Bowie
Antonius Diogenes, Greek writer of ‘The Incredible Things Beyond *Thule’ (Τὰ ὑπὲρ Θούλην ἅπιστα), a novel (see