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The Heracleidae (in ancient Greek Ἡρακλεῖδαι Hêrakleĩdai ) were the sons of Heracles ( Hercules ) and his descendants. The term is applied in a stricter sense to the descendants of Hilo , the eldest of the four children Heracles had with Deianira (although Hilo’s …
Thermopylae (from the Latin Thermopylae, -arum (pl. Tant.), And this from the Greek Θερμοπύλαι, with the same name in Katharévousa, and in Demotic Greek Θερμοπυλες: “Hot Doors”, sometimes simply Pylae, -arum (Greek: gym30λαι), is a …
Demosthenes . Orator orator and statesman from Athens , Greece , ( 384 – 322 BC ). His harsh speeches against the Macedonian King Philip (father of Alexander the Great ) were called Philippians and even to date, if someone gives a speech against someone the speech …
Alki Zei , shows the biographical synthesis of this Greek novelist, with a socialist tendency, who has a considerable literary work. Some of these works have been published in Cuba , as is the …
Tisias. He was known as Estesícoro (which means “master of the choir”, for his ability to direct the choral songs), he was a Greek poet born in Hímera ( Sicily ) around 630 and died around [[ 550 BC] …
Thucydides ( Athens , about 460 BC – Thrace , about 396 BC ) was a Greek historian and writer. Thucydides was an ideal historian model as he had to write from exile. Few data are known about the life of …
Sappho of Lesbos . She was a Greek poetess, considered one of the most outstanding poets of archaic Greek lyric poetry. She is presented as the teacher and founder of a school of poetry , …