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Part 1 - Ancient Greece
Michael Lahanas
Portraits and Biographies
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R - S - T
Sakonides, Vase painter
Salax, Potter
Sappho, Massimo Inv65167
How careless they, who say, " Nine Muses," when
With Lesbian Sappho, as you see, they're ten, Plato
From the 9 books of Sappho we have around 200 small fragments four large fragments and only a single complete poem . Recently another large fragment was "discovered" . Sappho complains about the problems of getting older and makes a reference to the Eos - Tithonos mythology.
Sappho (Σαπφώ)
The Sappho Companion, Margaret Reynolds, Victorian Sappho, Yopie Prins,
Satyros the architect
Satyrus
Scamander of Mytilene, stadion race winner 476 BC
Skopas, as if moved by some inspiration, imparted to the making of his statue the divine frenzy that possessed him. Why should I not describe to you from the beginning the inspiration of this work of art? The statue of a Maenad, wrought from Parian marble, has been transformed into a real Maenad... The Maenad of Skopas
Scopas
Scopas of Aetolia
Scylax of Caryanda
Scymnus of Chios
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus II Callinicus
Seleucus III
Seleucus of Seleucia
Seleucus VI Epiphanes
Seleucus VII Kybiosaktes
Sextus Empiricus
Sikanos (Sicanus), Potter
Sikelos (Sicelus), Attic Vasepainter
Silanion of Athens
Silanus of Ambracia
"the smartest person in the fifth century BC (Anne Carson)" because he was the first poet in the West to take money for poetic composition (Suda), the "Greek Voltaire" according to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
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..his last words--he said: Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
The debt shall be paid, said Crito; is there anything else? There was no answer to this question; but in a minute or two a movement was heard, and the attendants uncovered him; his eyes were set, and Crito closed his eyes and mouth.
Such was the end, Echecrates, of our friend; concerning whom I may truly say, that of all the men of his time whom I have known, he was the wisest and justest and best. Plato, Phaedo
In this family is found the poison hemlock (Conium) used by the ancient Greeks for the elimination of politicians, Scientific American , Suppl. 829, 1891
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Stone Seat dedicated to Artemis Orthia by Soixiadas "geronteusas tris ke presbys genomenos dis"
Sokles (Socles), Attic Potter
Solon, Miden Agan, "Nothing in excess"
Sophilos
Stasinus of Cyprus
Stasippus of Tegea
Statius (Publius Papinius Statius) , Roman poet of Greek origin
Stephanus of Cappadocia, stadion race winner 97 AD
Strepsiades of Thebes Pancration, Pindar Isthmia 7 Ode
Stertinius Xenophon
Stesichorus (Στησίχορος)
Stesimbrotus of Thasos
Sthenelus (tragic poet)
Stilpon
Stobaeus
Strabo a Greek Geographer during the Roman period (most of the important geographers of the Roman empire were Greeks, except Pliny and Pomponius Mela which use partly knowledge of Greek geographers)
Strabo of Amasia (Στράβων)
Strato I Indo-Greek King
Strato II Indo-Greek King
Strato of Lampsacus
Stratocles
Stratocles, son of Euthydemus, from Diomeia.
Straton of Sardis
Stratonice of Syria
Stratonice (wife of Antigonus Monophtalmus)
Stratonicus of Athens
Strattis
Strombichides
Strongylion
Susarion
Symmachus of Messenia, stadion race winner 428 and 424 BC
Syrianus
Greek Vase Painter (real name unkown)
Sabouroff Painter (Attic Painter)
Salting Painter
Samos Painter (Corinthian Painter)
Sandals Painter
St. Petersburger Painter
Sansone Painter
Painter of Santaneglo 534 (Apulian Painter)
Sappho Painter (Apulian Painter )
Sarpedon Painter
Schacky Painter
Scheuerleer Painter
Schiller Painter
Schlaepfer-Painter
Schulman-Painter
Schuwalow Painter (Attic Painter )
Seireniske Painter
Semele Painter
Painter of Sèvres 100 (Attic Painter)
Sirens Painter
Sisyphus Painter
Sokles Painter
Sosias Painter (Attic Painter)
Sotades Painter
Spinazzo Painter
Spreckels Painter
St. Audries Painter (Attic Painter)
Stobart Maler (Corinthian Painter)
Stoke-on-Trent Painter
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Ancient Greece
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Medieval Greece / Byzantine Empire
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Modern Greece
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