Epicles

Set of ancient Greek figures

Epicles (Epiklês) (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικλῆς) was the name of several prominent Ancient Greeks:

  • Epicles, an Ancient Greek medical writer who lived after Bacchius, and therefore probably in the 2nd or 1st century BC. Epicles is quoted by Erotianus,[1] who wrote a commentary on the obsolete words found in the writings of Hippocrates, which he arranged in alphabetical order.
  • Epicles of Troy, a Lycian or Trojan prince killed by Ajax.[2][3]
  • Epicles of Hermione, a musician who played the lyre, mentioned by Plutarch.[4]
  • Epicles, the eponymous archon of Athens of 131–130 BC
  • Epicles, the father of Proteas, an Athenian admiral in the Peloponnesian War, mentioned by Thucydides.[5]
  • Epicles of Thespiae, mentioned on a dedication at Delphi.[6]
  • Epicleas, a Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War.[7]

References

  1. ^ Erotianus, Gloss. Hippocr. p. 16 (cited by Greenhill)
  2. ^ Homer, Iliad12, v, 378.
  3. ^ John Lemprière, Bibliotheca Classica: A Classical Dictionary(A. Strahan, 1801).
  4. ^ John Langhorne, William Langhorne, Plutarch's Lives, (Google eBook) Plutarch, (Thomas & Andrews, Boston, 1804) page 270.
  5. ^ Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II: 6.
  6. ^ The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis Book XIII Concerning Women (Page III) Archived 2014-07-06 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ^ Martin Hammond, The Peloponnesian War (Google eBook) (Oxford University Press, 2009) VIII 108.


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