Aegimius, a legendary king, son (or father, scholiast Pind. Pyth. 1. 121) of Dorus, eponym of the *Dorians. Being attacked by the *Centaurs, he asked *Heracles to help him, and in gratitude for his aid adopted *Hyllus and made him joint heir with his own sons.
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Aegimius
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Aegina
Simon Hornblower
Aegina, island in Saronic Gulf, inhabited from late neolithic times and in contact with Minoan Crete and Mycenae. Early in the first millennium
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aegis
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
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Aegisthus
Herbert Jennings Rose and Jenny March
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Aegium
Catherine A. Morgan
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Aegospotami
Simon Hornblower
‘Goat’s rivers’ in the *Hellespont, probably an open beach somewhere opposite *Lampacus, scene of the final and decisive sea-battle of the *Peloponnesian war, a victory over the Athenians by the Spartans under *Lysander (405). *Alcibiades, in exile in Thrace, had warned the Athenian generals (who included *Conon (1)) of the dangers of their exposed position, and may even have offered military help in the form of Thracians; but he was rebuffed. The accounts of how the battle started cannot be reconciled, but it is clear that, after several days of inactivity, the Athenians were caught with most of their ships unmanned.
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Aegosthena
John Salmon
Aegosthena, settlement and fortified place in the territory of *Megara, at the easternmost point of the Corinthian Gulf. The remnants of the Spartan army which was defeated at *Leuctra joined a relieving force at Aegosthena on their way back to Sparta (Xen. Hell. 6. 4. 26). The fortifications are (despite earthquake damage in the early 1980s) among the best preserved in Greece, but the history of the site is ill known, and their date is uncertain: they were probably not much, if at all, before 350, but may be 3rd-century. Aegosthena went into the *Achaean Confederacy when Megara joined in 243/2
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Aegritudo Perdicae
Alun Hudson-Williams and Antony Spawforth
Aegritudo Perdicae, an anonymous Latin *epyllion narrating the calamitous love of Perdicas for his mother, Castalia. Its ascription to *Dracontius is unwarrantable, though it almost certainly belongs to his period (i.e. 5th cent.
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(Aelia) Eudocia, c. 400–460 CE
Pavlos Avlamis
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Aelian
Steven D. Smith
Aelian (Claudius Aelianus, 161/77–230/8 CE), an influential writer of miscellaneous works in Rome during the reign of the Severan emperors, helped shape the literary landscape of the so-called Second Sophistic. There are two sources for his life, one a contemporary notice by Philostratus in his Lives of the Sophists, and the other a brief entry in the 10th-centurySuda lexicon. According to the former, Aelian ‘was a Roman, but he spoke and wrote Attic Greek’ (VS 624). A student of the sophist Pausanias of Caesarea and an admirer of Herodes Atticus, Aelian himself declined to declaim in public and instead committed himself to writing and composition. He died without any children, and he claimed never to have travelled outside of Italy. The Suda supplies additional information: Aelian was born in Praeneste (modern Palestrina) near Rome and he was a high priest (ἀρχιερεύς), though the Byzantine source is silent about what god Aelian served.
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Aelianus, 1st–2nd cent. CE
M. B. Trapp
Aelianus (1st–2nd cent.
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Aelius Gallus
Ronald Syme and Barbara Levick
Aelius Gallus, prefect of Egypt after C. *Cornelius Gallus and before C. Petronius (see
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Aelius Marcianus
Tony Honoré
Aelius Marcianus, a lawyer of the early 3rd cent.
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Aelius Melissus
R. A. Kaster
Aelius Melissus, grammarian contemporary with A. *Gellius (NA 18. 6. 1–3), who derides his work on semantics (De loquendi proprietate).
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Aelius Paetus, Sextus
Tony Honoré
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Aelius Promotus, physician
From Alexandria (1), probably belonging to the period between Hadrian and Pertinax (
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Aelius Seianus, Lucius, d. 31 CE
John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon and Barbara Levick
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Aelius Tubero, Lucius
Ernst Badian
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Aelius Tubero, Quintus
Ernst Badian, Tony Honoré, and Christopher Pelling
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Aelius, Lucius
R. A. Kaster
(also called ‘Stilo’ and ‘Praeconinus’: Suet. Gram. 3; Plin. HN 33. 39, 37. 9), the first important Roman scholar, born at Lanuvium about 150