Part 1 - Ancient Greece

Michael Lahanas

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Ptolemaeus Chennus

Ptolemy Soter was plain in his manners, and scarcely surpassed his own generals in the costliness of his way of life. He often dined and slept at the houses of his friends; and his own house had so little of the palace, that he borrowed dishes and tables of his friends when he asked any number of them to dine with him in return, saying that it was the part of a king to enrich others rather than to be rich himself. ..

What most strikes us with wonder and regret is, that of these two writers, Manetho, an Egyptian priest who wrote in Greek, Eratosthenes, a Greek who understood something of Egyptian, neither of them took the trouble to lay open to their readers the peculiarities of the hieroglyphics. Through all these reigns, the titles and praises of the Ptolemies were carved upon the temples in the sacred characters. These two histories were translated from the same inscriptions. We even now read the names of the kings which they mention carved on the statues and temples; and yet the language of the hieroglyphics still remained unknown beyond the class of priests; such was the want of curiosity on the part of the Greek grammarians of Alexandria. Such, we may add, was their want of respect for the philosophy of the Egyptians; and we need no stronger proof that the philosophers of the museum had hitherto borrowed none of the doctrines of the priests.

S. Rappoport, History of Egypt.

Ptolemy XIII, Cleopatra 1963

Ptolemy XIII
Ptolemy XIV

Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar (Caesarion)

Death of Ptolemy Keraunos, 15th c. Medieval Manuscript France

Ptolemy Keraunos
Ptolemy (nephew of Antigonus I Monophtalmus)

Ptolemy Claudius (Πτολεμαίος Κλαύδιος)

Anthony W., Erich S. Gruen, A.A. Long, and Andrew Stewart, editors Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4r29p0kg/

Ptolichus of Aegina

Pyrgoteles

Pyrilampes

Pyromachus

Pyrrhias of Aetolia, stadion race winner 200 BC

PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that. Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

A different custom prevails with the Eclectics and Pyrrhonians who, while asserting that nothing can be known, keep on asking and searching without ever wanting to find anything. Giordano Bruno

Pyrrho (Πύρρων)

Another such victory and we are lost!

Pyrrhus Tetradrachm, Zeus Dodonaios, Dione with a stephanos on a throne, Basileos Pyrrou Greek Text produced probably in Italy

Pythagoras of Laconia, stadion race winner 716 BC

Pythagoras of Magnesia-on-Maeander, stadion race winner 300 and 296 BC

Pythagoras of Rhegium

Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας ο Σάμιος) & Pythagoras (Diogenes Laertius)
Pytheas (Πυθέας ο Μασσαλιώτης )
Pythis / Pythius
Pythocles of Sicyon, stadion race winner 236 BC
Pythocritus of Rhodes

Pythostratus of Ephesus, stadion race winner 368 BC

Greek Vase Painter (real name unknown)

P.S. Painter

Palermo Painter

Pan Painter
Panther Painter
Pantoxena Painter

Poseidon versus Polybotes, Gigantomachy

Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy
Painter of the Paris judgement
Parrish Painter
Pasidiades Painter

Pasithea Painter
Patera Painter

Pedieus Painter, Louvre G457

Pedieus Painter
Peleus Painter

Odysseus killing the suitors of his wife Penelope, Attic red-figure skyphos, c. 440 BC, from Tarquinia, by the Penelope Painter and Greek Vase, Altes Museum - Antikensammlung , Penelope Painter

Penelope Painter

Penthesilea Painter
Perrone Painter
Persephone Painter
Perseus Painter
Pharos Painter
Phiale Painter
Phineus Painter
Piraeus Painter
Pistoxenos Painter

Pithos Painter
Phrynos Painter

Pisticci Painter
Pittsburgh Painter
Pluton-VHP Painter

Komos, Louvre E841

Pointed Nose Painter

Policoro Painter
Polos Painter
Polydectes Painter
Pompe Painter
Poseidon Painter

Pourtalès Painter
Prado/Fienga Painter
Priamos Painter

Primato Painter

Princeton Painter

Lernaean Hydra Louvre E851, Prometheus Painter

Prometheus Painter

Pronomos Painter

Nike, Providence Painter, CdM

Neck Amphora, Louvre G216

Providence Painter

Pioneer Group

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