Part 1 - Ancient Greece

Michael Lahanas

Portraits and Biographies

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.

Pope Sixtus II

Skythes (Scythes), Vase Painter

Smikros

Smilis

..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

Socrates

Socrates, the actor

Socrates of Argos

Socrates of Cos

Socrates of Rhodes

Sogenes of Aegina, Pentathlon boy's, Pindar Nemea Ode 7

Stone Seat dedicated to Artemis Orthia by Soixiadas "geronteusas tris ke presbys genomenos dis"

Sokles (Socles), Attic Potter

Solon, Miden Agan, "Nothing in excess"

Solon of Athens (or Salamis) (Σόλων) & Solon (Plutarch)

Sondros, Attic Potter

Soos
Sopatras

Sophilos

Sophocles (Σοφοκλής)
Sophron of Ambracia, stadion race winner 432 BC
Sophron of Syracuse
Sophroniscus, father of Socrates

Sophytes, Hellenistic Coins

Sophytes

Sosias , Attic Potter

Sosibius of Tarentum
Sosibius

Sosimos , Attic Potter

Sosicles

Sosigenes of Alexandria (Σωσιγένης ο Αλεξανδρεύς)
Sosigenes the Peripatetic (Σωσιγένης ο Περιπατητικός)
Sosiphanes
Sosippus of Delphi, stadion race winner 388 BC
Sosinos of Gortyn (a cooper smelter, "chalkoptes") Individual known from a stele
Sositheus
Sosthenes of Macedon
Sostratus of Cnidus

Sosus (or Sosos) of Pergamon (see the Doves of Sosos)
Sotades (potter)

Sotades: symbols of immortality on Greek vases, Herbert Hoffmann

Sotades (Σωτάδης)(poet)

Sotes , Attic Potter

Sotion
Spartacus
Spendon of Sparta
Speusippus
Spintharus
Sphaerus (Sphairos) of Bosporus (Stoic)
Sphodrias of Sparta
Sporus of Nicaea
Staphylus of Naucratis

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

Suessula Painter

Swing Painter

Sydney Painter

Syleus Painter
Syracus Painter

Syriskos Painter

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