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Timanthes

(Encyclopedia)Timanthes tĭmănˈthēz [key], fl. c.400 b.c., Greek painter of Sicyon, a contemporary of Parrhasius and Zeuxis. His masterpiece, Sacrifice of Iphigenia, was considered one of the great ancient paint...

Corinna

(Encyclopedia)Corinna kərĭnˈə [key], fl. c.500? b.c., Greek poet of Tanagra. Her verse, fragments of which remain, deals with mythological themes and is written in Boeotian dialect. There exists no consensus on...

Graeae

(Encyclopedia)Graeae or Graiae both: grēˈī [key], in Greek mythology, daughters of Ceto and Phorcus, called Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo. The personifications of old age, they were born with gray hair and only one...

Dionysius Periegetes

(Encyclopedia)Dionysius Periegetes pĕˌrēəjēˈtēz [key], fl. c.300? b.c., Greek poet. He wrote the poem Description of the Inhabited Earth, which was popular in antiquity. ...

Diphilus

(Encyclopedia)Diphilus dĭfˈĭləs [key], fl. 300 b.c., Greek dramatist of the New Comedy, b. Sinope. His many dramas (perhaps 100) were extensively adapted by Plautus and Terence and influenced the entire Roman s...

Évripos

(Encyclopedia)Évripos ĕvˈrĭpôs [key], strait, c.5 mi (8 km) long and from 120 ft to 1 mi (37 m–1.6 km) wide, forming the central and narrowest part of the channel separating the island of Évvoia from the Gr...

Endymion

(Encyclopedia)Endymion ĕndĭmˈēən [key], in Greek mythology, young shepherd, loved by Selene (the moon). In one version of his legend, he asked Zeus for immortality and perpetual youth. Zeus consented on the co...

Epicharmus

(Encyclopedia)Epicharmus ĕpĭkärˈməs [key], c.550–c.460 b.c., Sicilian Greek comic dramatist. He was the first to write a coherent artistic comedy, and he dealt with forms other than personal satire such as m...

Trophonius

(Encyclopedia)Trophonius trəfōˈnēəs [key], in Greek mythology, famous architect. He and his brother Agamedes built the temple of Apollo at Delphi and the treasury of King Hyrieus. According to one legend, Trop...

Priene

(Encyclopedia)Priene prīēˈnē [key], ancient Ionian city of W Asia Minor, near the mouth of the Maeander (now Menderes) River. It was rebuilt in the 4th cent. b.c. and was the site of a temple of Athena Polias. ...