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Asclepiades Mendes
←Created page with '{{Short description|Ancient Greek historian}} '''Asclepiades''' ({{lang-grc|Ἀσκληπιάδης}}) was a writer of
ancient Egypt who possessed, according to the
Suda, a profound knowledge of
Ancient Egyptian religion, and wrote hymns on his
native gods.<ref>
Suda, ''s.v.'' Ἡράϊσκος</ref> He also composed a work upon the agreement among the different religions, a second on the history of Egypt, and a...'
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Asclepiades of Anazarba
←Created page with '{{Short description|Ancient Greek writer of a work on rivers}} '''Asclepiades''' ({{lang-grc|Ἀσκληπιάδης}}) or '''Asclepios''' of
Anazarba in
Cilicia was a historian of ancient Greece. He is mentioned by several ancient writers as the author of many works, though today we know specifics about only two of them: one was a work called ''On Rivers'' (περὶ ποταμῶν), and another was about the antiquities of his native city, ''The...'
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Asclepiades of Alexandria
←Created page with '{{Short description|Ancient Greek Grammarian}} '''Asclepiades''' ({{lang-grc|Ἀσκληπιάδης}}) of
Alexandria seems to have been a
grammarian, as the
Scholiast on
Aristophanes quotes him as an authority on the meaning of the word δήμαρχος.<ref>
Scholiast on
Aristophanes ''
The Clouds'', 37</ref> Of his time we know only that he lived in or after the 5th century BCE. ==References== {{reflist...'current
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Asclapo
←Created page with '{{Short description|Ancient Greek physician}} '''Asclapo''' was a Greek
physician of
ancient Rome who lived in
Patrae, in
Achaia, and who attended on
Cicero's
freedman,
Marcus Tullius Tiro, during an illness of his in 51 BCE.<ref>
Cicero, ''Ad Familiares'' 16.9</ref> Cicero was so much pleased by his kindness and his medical skill that he wrote a letter of recommendation for him to Servius Sulpicius...'
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Ascarus
←Created page with '{{Short description|Ancient Greek sculptor}} {{about||the genus of parasitic worms|Ascaris}} '''Ascarus''' ({{lang-grc|Ἄσκαρος}}) was a sculptor of ancient
Thebes, who made a statue of the Greek god
Zeus, which was dedicated by the
Thessalians at
Olympia.<ref>
Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 5.24.1.</ref> The classicist
Friedrich Thiersch believed that he was...'