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ΝΕΑΠΟΛΙΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ
Canidia whose real name was Gratidia, as we learn from the scholiasts, was a Neapolitan hetaira beloved by Horace; but when she deserted him, he revenged himself upon her by holding her up to contempt as an old sorceress. This was the object of the 5th and 17th Epodes, and of the 8th Satire of the first book. The Palinodia in the 16th ode of the 1st book is supposed to refer to these poems. Horace attacks her by the name of Canidia because her real name Gratidia conveyed the idea of what was pleasing and agreeable, while the assumed one was associated with gray hairs and old age. (Comp. Hor. Sat. ii. 1. 48; Schol. Acr. and Cruqu. ad loc. and ad Sat. i. 8. 24.)
ΕΛΕΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΤΑΛΙΑ
Aegimus or Aegimius (Aigimos, or Aigimios), one of the most ancient of the Greek physicians, who is said by Galen to have been the first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse. He was a native of Velia in Lucania, and is supposed to have lived before the time of Hippocrates, that is, in the fifth century before Christ. His work was entitled Peri Palmon, De Palpitationibus, (a name which alone sufficiently indicates its antiquity,) and is not now in existence. Callimachus (ap. Athen. xiv.) mentions an author named Aegimius, who wrote a work on the art of making cheesecakes (plakountopoukon sungramma, and Pliny mentions a person of the same name (H. N. vii. 49), who was said to have lived two hundred years; but whether these are the same or different individuals is quite uncertain.
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ΣΑΝΤΑ ΜΑΡΙΑ ΚΑΠΟΥΑ ΒΕΤΕΡΕ (Πόλη) ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ
Decius Magius, one of the most distinguished men at Capua in the time of the second Punic war, and the leader of the Roman party in that town in opposition to Hannibal. He is characterised by Velleius Paterculus (ii. 16), who was descended from him, as "Campanorurn princeps celeberrimus et nobilissimus vir." He used every effort to dissuade his fellow-citizens from receiving Hannibal into their town after the battle of Cannae, B. C. 216, but in vain; and, accordingly, when Hannibal entered the city, one of his first acts was to require the senate to deliver up Magius to him. This request was complied with: Magius was put on board ship, and sent to Carthage; but a storm having driven the vessel to Cyrene, Magius fled for refuge to the statue of Ptolemy. He was in consequence carried to Alexandria to Ptolemy Philopator, who set him at liberty, and gave him permission to go where he pleased. Magius chose Egypt as his residence, as he could not return to Capua, and did not choose to go to Rome, where he would have been looked upon as a deserter, as long as there was war between his own town and the Romans. (Liv. xxiii 7, 10.)
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ΚΥΜΗ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ
Heracleides, (Herakleides). Of Cumae, the author of a history of Persia (Persika), a portion of which bore the special title of paraskeuastika, and, to judge from the quotations from it, contained an account of the mode of life of the kings of Persia. (Athen. iv. p. 145, xii. p. 117 ; comp. ii. p. 48.) According to Diogenes Laertius (v. 94), the Persica consisted of five books.
ΛΕΥΚΑΝΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΙΤΑΛΙΑ
M. Lamponius, a Lucanian, was one of the principal captains of the Italians in the war of the allies with Rome, B. C. 90--88. He commanded in his native province at the breaking out of the war, since he drove P. Licinius Crassus, with great loss into Grumentum. (Front. Strat. ii. 4, 16.) In the last war with Sulla, B. C. 83--2, when the Samnites and Lucanians had become the allies of the Marian party at Rome, Lamponius was the companion of Pontius of Telesia in his march upon the capital. After victory finally declared for Sulla at the Colline gate, Lamponius disappeared with the herd of fugitives. (Appian, B. C. i. 40, 41, 90, 93; Plut. Sull. 29; Flor. iii. 21; Eutrop. v. 8.) Aponios in Diodorus (xxxvii. Eclog. i.) is a misreading for Lamponius.
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ΚΑΠΡΙ (Νησί) ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ
Blaesus, (Blaisos), an ancient Italian poet, born at Capreae, who wrote serio-comic
plays (spoudogeloioi) in Greek. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Kaprie.) Two of these plays,
the Mesotribas and Satournos, are quoted by Athenaeus (iii., xi.), and Hesychius
refers to Blaesus (s. vv. Mokkonosis, Molgoi, Phulatos), but without mentioning
the names of his plays. Casaubon supposed that Blaesus lived under the Roman empire;
but he must have lived as early as the 3rd century B. C. as Valckenar (ad Theocr.)
has shewn, that Athenaeus took his quotations of Blaesus from the Glossai of Pamphilus
of Alexandria, who was a disciple of Aristarchus; and also that Pamphilus borrowed
a part of his work explaining the words in Blaesus and similar poets from the
Glossai Italikai of Diodorus, who was a pupil of Aristophanes of Alexandria. (Comp.
Schweigh. ad Athen. iii.)
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ΚΥΜΗ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ
Hyperochus, (Huperochos), the generally acknowledged author of a metricalaccount of Cumae, mentioned by Athenaeus (xii. p. 528, d.), and Pausanias (x. 12.8), who refers to what he had written respecting the Cumaean sybil.
ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ (Περιφέρεια) ΙΤΑΛΙΑ
Gutta, a native of Capua, one of the commanders of the Italian allies, who came to the relief of the younger Marius in the civil war, B. C. 83. (App. B. C. iii. 90.) Schweighauser thinks he may be the same as the Albinus who perished with Telesinus shortly afterwards, and that consequently his full name was Albinus Gutta. (Schw. ad App. B. C. i. 93)
ΣΑΝΤΑ ΜΑΡΙΑ ΚΑΠΟΥΑ ΒΕΤΕΡΕ (Πόλη) ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ
Hanno. An officer who was sent by Hannibal, in 212 B. C., with a force of 1000
horse and 1000 foot, to the defence of Capua, when the Romans began to threaten
that city. According to Livy, Bostar was associated with him in the command. Though
they made several vigorous sallies, in which their cavalry were often victorious,
yet they were unable to prevent the Romans from completing their fortified lines
around the city, which was thus entirely blockaded. Famine soon made itself felt,
and the populace of the city became discontented; but the Carthaginian
governors contrived to send tidings of their distress to Hannibal, who hastened
to their relief out of Lucania. But though Hanno and Bostar seconded his efforts,
by a vigorous sally from the city against the Roman camp, while Hannibal attacked
it from without, all their exertions were in vain; and the daring march of Hannibal
upon Rome itself having proved equally ineffectual in compelling the consuls to
dislodge their troops from before Capua, the fall of that city became inevitable.
Under these circumstances, the Campanians endeavoured to purchase forgiveness,
by surrendering into the hands of the Romans the Carthaginian garrison, with its
two commanders, B. C. 211. (Liv. xxv. 15, xxvi. 5, 12; Appian, Annib. 36-43.)
Appian (l. c.) carefully distinguishes this Hanno from the son of Bomilcar [No.
16], with whom he might have been easily confounded: the latter is distinctly
mentioned as commanding in Lucania after the siege of Capua had commenced.
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ΚΥΜΗ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ
Aristodemus (Aristodemos), tyrant of Cumae in Campania, a contemporary of Tarquinius
Superbus. His history is related at great length by Dionysius. He was of a distinguished
family, and surnamed Malakos -respecting the meaning of which the ancients themselves
are not agreed. By his bravery and popular arts, he gained the favour of the people;
and having caused many of the nobles to be put to death, or sent into exile, he
made himself tyrant of Cumae, B. C. 502. He secured his usurped power by surrounding
himself with a strong body-guard, by disarming the people, removing the male descendants
of the exiled nobles from the town, and compelling them to perform servile labour
in the country. In addition to this, the whole of the young generation of Cumae
were educated in an effeminate and enervating manner. In this way he maintained
himself for several years, until at last the exiled nobles and their sons, supported
by Campanians and mercenaries, recovered the possession of Cumae, and took cruel
vengeance on Aristodemus and his family (Dionys. Hal. vii.; Diod. Fragm. lib.
vii. in the "Excerpt. de Virt. et Vit."; Suidas, s. v. Aristodemos). According
to Plutarch (de Virt. Mulier.), he assisted the Romans against the Etruscans,
who endeavoured to restore the Tarquins. According to Livy (ii. 21), Tarquinius
Superbus took refuge at the court of this tyrant, and died there.
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ΕΛΕΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΤΑΛΙΑ
A Greek philosopher and poet, born of an illustrious family
about B.C. 510, at Elea in Lower Italy. He was held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens
on account of his excellent legislation, to which they ascribed the prosperity
and wealth of the town; and also on account of his exemplary life. A "Parmenidean
life" was proverbial among the Greeks. Little more is known of his biography
than that he stopped at Athens on a journey in his sixty-fifth year, and there
became acquainted with the youthful Socrates. He is the chief representative of
the Eleatic philosophy. Like his great teacher, Xenophanes, he also formulated
his philosophical views in a didactic poem, On Nature (Peri Phuseos), the form
of which was considered inartistic. According to the proem, which has been preserved
(while we only possess fragments of the rest), the work consisted of two divisions.
The first treated of the truth, the second of the world of illusion; that is,
the world of the senses and the erroneous opinions of mankind founded upon them.
In his opinion truth lies in the perception that existence is, and error in the
idea that non-existence also can be. Nothing can have real existence but what
is conceivable; therefore to be imagined and to be able to exist are the same
thing, and there is no development; the essence of what is conceivable is incapable
of development, imperishable, immutable, unbounded, and indivisible; what is various
and mutable, all development, is a delusive phantom; perception is thought directed
to the pure essence of being; the phenomenal world is a delusion, and the opinions
formed concerning it can only be improbable. The best edition of the fragments
is that in Karsten's Philosophorum Graecorum Reliquiae.
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515 - 440
Parmenides was a Greek philosopher from Elea in southern Italy,
who founded the Eleatic School of Philosophy. He offered the view that the changing
world, visible to the senses, is too perishable and unstable to be ultimate reality.
In his principle work, a lengthy two-part verse composition, he held that the
multiplicity of existing things are but an appearance of a single eternal reality.
His doctrine of “all is one” contrasts with the opposite view of his
contemporary philosopher, Heraclitus, who maintained that “all is change”.
This text is cited July 2003 from the Hyperhistory Online URL below.
Presocratic philosopher whose work is best known to us in fragmentary
reports from other philosophers. Parmenides used sophisticated logical language
in the epic poem On Nature to argue that all of reality is a single,
unchanging substance. Everything is what it is -complete and immobile- and can
never become what it is not.
Followers of Parmenides included Zeno of Elea and other Eleatics.
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Philosopher, poet and greatest member of the Eleatic School.
Pamenides held that our surroundings do not really exist, they are
just illusion. Thus, any change or variety does not exist either. The true reality
can not be known by the senses but only by reason.
He stated that the Absolute Being exists but we cannot percieve it.
He also said that the true universe was a massive sphere of thinking in a resting
state.
One of Parmenides' disciples was Zeno, who also defended his teacher
through a series of paradoxes when the Greeks made fun of Parmenides' ideas.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the In2Greece URL below.
Philosopher and mathematician from Elea in Italy.
He studied under Parmenides and followed his techer to Athens
when he was 40. There he became a teacher, and had several famous students, including
Pericles and Callias.
Later in life he was to return to Elea, where he is said to have tried
to overthrow the tyrant Nearchus. The plan failed, and Zeno was tortured, but
courageously gave no information.
Zeno worked out a series of paradoxes to demonstrate his ideas, including
the logical impossibility of motion and the illusority of the senses. In doing
this, he was called the inventor of dialectical reasoning by Aristotle. His best
known paradox is the one about Achilles and the turtle. According to Zenon, if
the two are put to race and the turtle is given some distance to start before
Achilles, there is no way Achilles can pass it as the turtle will move a little
while Achilles is running. By moving forward the turtle is always ahead, and so
it will be at least a tie.
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Zenon. The Eleatic philosopher, a native of Elea (Velia) in Italy, son of Teleutagoras, and the favourite disciple of Parmenides. He was born about B.C. 488, and at the age of forty accompanied Parmenides to Athens. He appears to have resided some time at Athens, and is said to have unfolded his doctrines to men like Pericles and Callias for the price of 100 minae. Zeno is said to have taken part in the legislation of Parmenides, to the maintenance of which the citizens of Elea had pledged themselves every year by an oath. His love of freedom is shown by the courage with which he exposed his life in order to deliver his native country from a tyrant. Whether he perished in the attempt or survived the fall of the tyrant is a point on which the authorities vary. They also state the name of the tyranny differently. Zeno devoted all his energies to explain and develop the philosophical system of Parmenides.
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490 - 430
Various WebPages (see also Kitio, ancient city)
ΛΕΥΚΑΝΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΙΤΑΛΙΑ
Aesara (Aisara), of Lucania, a female Pythagorean philosopher, said to be a daughter of Pythagoras, wrote a work "about Human Nature," of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaens. (Ecl. i. p. 847, ed. Heeren.) Some editors attribute this fragment to Aresas, one of the successors of Pythagoras, but Bentley prefers reading Aesara.
ΝΕΑΠΟΛΙΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ
Aeschines (Aischines), of Neapolis, a Peripatetic philosopher, who was at the head of the Academy at Athens, together with Charmades and Clitomachus about B. C. 109. (Cic. de Orat. i. 11.) Diogenes Laertius (ii. 64) says, that he was a pupil of Melanthus the Rhodian.
ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝΙΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ
Προσωκρατικός φιλόσοφος, οπαδός του Πυθαγόρα.
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