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KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
A Carian, sails to Isles of Satyrs.
Mausolus, (Mausolos). A king of Caria and eldest son of Hecatomnus. He reigned B.C. 377-353. In 362 he joined in a revolt against Artaxerxes Mnemon, and thereby added to his dominions. In 358 he aided the Rhodians and their allies against Athens, and died in the year 353, leaving no children. He was succeeded by his wife and sister Artemisia, who erected to his memory the costly monument called from him the Mausoleum.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Hierocles. A Carian leader of mercenaries, which formed part of the garrison in the forts of Athens, under Demetrius Poliorcetes. He discovered to his commanding officer, Heracleides, some overtures which had been made to him by the Athenians to induce him to betray into their hands the fortress of the Museum, and thus caused the complete destruction of the Athenian force that attempted to surprise it. (Polyaen. v. 17.1.) He is probably the same whom we find at a subsequent period (as early as B. C. 278), holding the command of the Peiraeeus and Munychia for Antigonus Gonatas. His relations within the philosopher Arcesilaus appear to indicate that he was a man of cultivated mind. (Diog. Laert. ii. 127, iv. 39; Droysen, Hellenism. vol. ii.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Aristodemus (Aristodemos), a painter, a native of Caria, contemporary with Philostratus
the elder, with whom he was connected by the ties of hospitality. He wrote a work
giving an account of distinguished painters, of the cities in which painting had
flourished most, and of the kings who had encouraged the art.
Eumelus (Eumelos), a painter, whose productions were distinguished for their beauty. There was a Helen by him in the forum at Rome. He probably lived about A. D. 190. (Philostr. Imag. Prooem. p. 4; Vit. Soph. ii. 5.) He is supposed to have been the teacher of Aristodemus, whose school was frequented by the elder Philostratus.
A Carian writer of the third century B. C.
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