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NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
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.)
KYMI (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
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.
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
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.
KYMI (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
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.
KYMI (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
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.
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
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