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Bees plaster honey on mouth of youthful, vanquished by Corinna, receives share of first-fruits offered to Apollo at Delphi, his iron chair at Delphi, dedicates images of Ammon and Hermes, dedicates sanctuary of Mother Dindymene, praises Athenians and is honoured by them, dream before his death, his tomb, statue at Athens, ruins of his house, his hymn in honour of Ammon, his song about Aphaea, his posthumous hymn on Proserpine, his poem on Sacadas, Pindar on children of Aloeus, on Alpheus and Artemis, on the Altis, on Antiope the Amazon, on founders of sanctuary of Ephesian Artemis, on Fortune, on Glaucus the sea demon, on Iamus, on Lynceus, on the Navel (omphalos) at Delphi, on selfishness in trouble, on Silenus, on golden songstresses, on Theseus and Pirithous, on loves of Zeus and Thebe, on the kibisis, quoted ("Custom is the lord of all").
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 18/7/2001: 782 for Pindar, 39 for Pindarus, 1000 for Pind., 3 for Pindaros.
Anaxis, a Boeotian, wrote a history of Greece, which was carried down to B. C. 360, the year before the accession of Philip to the kingdom of Macedonia. (Diod. xv. 95.)
Ctesiphon, the author of a work on Boeotia, of which Plutarch (Parall. Min. 12) quotes the third book. Whether he is the same as the Ctesiphon who wrote on plants and trees (Plut. de Fluv. 14, 18) is uncertain.
Dionysodorus, (Dionusodoros). A Boeotian, who is mentioned by Diodorus Siculus (xv. 95) as the author of a history of Greece, which came down as far as the reign of Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great. It is usually supposed that he is the same person as the Dionysodorus in Diogenes Laertius (ii. 42), who denied that the paean which went by the name of Socrates, was the production of the philosopher. (Comp. Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 917.) It is uncertain also whether he is the auther of a work on rivers (peri potamon, Schol. ad Eurip. Hippol. 122), and of another entitled ta tara tois tragoidois hemartemena, which is quoted by a Scholiast. (Ad Eurip. Rhes. 504.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Lysimachus. A comic poet, mentioned by Lucian, who ridicules him for the absurd pedantry with which, though born in Boeotia, he affected to carry the Attic use of T for S to an extreme, using not only such words as tettarakonta, temeron, kattiteron, kattuma and pittan, but even basilittaa. (Lucian, Jud. Vocal.) Nothing more is known of this Lysimachus, and possibly the name is fictitious.
Masistius or Macistius (Masistios, Makistios), a Persian, of fine and commanding presence, was leader of the cavalry in the army which Xerxes left behind in Greece under Mardonius. When the Persian force, having entered Boeotia, was drawn up on the right bank of the Asopus, with the Greeks opposite them along the skirts of Cithaeron, Mardonius, having waited impatiently and to no purpose for the enemy to descend and fight him in the plain, sent Masistius and the cavalry against them. In the combat which ensued, the horse of Masistius, being wounded in the side with an arrow, reared and threw him. The Athenians rushed upon him immediately, but he was cased in complete armour, which for a time protected him, till at last he was slain by the thrust of a spear in his eye through the visor of his helmet. The Persians tried desperately, but in vain, to rescue his body, which was afterwards placed in a cart and led along the Grecian lines, while the men gazed on it with admiration. His countrymen mourned for him as the most illustrious man in the army next to Mardonius. They shaved their own heads, as well as their horses and their beasts of burden, and they raised a wailing, which, according to Herodotus, was heard over the whole of Boeotia. (Herod. ix. 20-25; Plut. Arist. 14.) This Masistius seems to have been a different person from the son of Siromitres, who commanded the Alarodians and Saspeirians in the army of Xerxes. (Herod. vii. 79.) The breastplate of Masistius was dedicated, as a trophy, in the temple of Athena Polias at Athens. (Paus. i. 27.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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