Polycrates' life and activities is the historian Herodotus, who devotes a large section of book 3 of his Histories to the rise and fall of Polycrates...

Polycrates (Greek: Πολυκράτης c. 440-370 B.C.) was a sophist from Athens, who later retired to the island of Cyprus. He wrote a work titled The Indictment...

Polycrates of Ephesus (/pəˈlɪkrəˌtiːz/; Greek: Πολυκράτης; fl. c. 130 – 196) was an Early Christian bishop at Ephesus. Polycrates convened a synod to...

Ode to Polycrates (also To Polycrates, 282a or S151) is an ancient Greek poem written by Ibycus and dedicated to Polycrates, tyrant of Samos. It was composed...

Dalla polycrates is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Dalla polycrates polycrates - Colombia...

Polycrates of Argos, son of Mnasiades, was a Ptolemaic commander at the Battle of Raphia, as well as a governor of Cyprus and chancellor of the Ptolemaic...

Polycrates (Ancient Greek: Πολυκράτης, Polykratēs) may refer to: Polycrates, tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC Polycrates (sophist) (c. 440-370...

made some years later by the Athenian sophist Polycrates in his Accusation of Socrates. But Polycrates' work is lost, and our sources for reconstructing...

as Paros. Lygdamis contributed a force of mercenaries to aid his ally Polycrates, the powerful tyrant of Samos, in his campaigns against Miletus and Mytilene...

1. Polycrates of Ephesus, a notable bishop of the time, was a contemporary of Melito, and in one of his letters preserved by Eusebius, Polycrates describes...

Der Ring des Polykrates may refer to: Der Ring des Polykrates (poem) by Schiller Der Ring des Polykrates (opera) by Korngold This disambiguation page lists...

usually ascribed to Ibycus, glorifying a youthful Polycrates, but this was unlikely to have been the Polycrates of Samos and might instead have been his son...

was a major power in the Aegean, culminating in the reign of the tyrant Polycrates. In the Classical period, Samos came under Athenian domination and activity...

during the persecution of Diocletian. In a synodal letter written by Polycrates of Ephesus about the year 190, he speaks of seven of his relatives who...

crucifixion of Polycrates the tyrant after his capture by the Persian Oroetus (17th century). Oroetus (detail). The crucifixion of Polycrates by Oroetus....

martyrdom during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Sagar was quoted by Polycrates because he was a quartodeciman. His feast day is 6 October. Catholic Online...

for their tyrannical rule, first being called "The Thirty Tyrants" by Polycrates. Although they maintained power for only eight months, their reign resulted...

Aeaces (Ancient Greek: Αἰάκης, fl. 550 BC) was the father of Polycrates, the powerful tyrant of Samos. He was a prominent aristocrat in his own right,...

temples. Samos. The new Heraion was built in 525 BC and it is called the "Polycrates temple". The temple measured 54,58x111,50m at the stylobate. It was dipteral...

bishop of Rome a generation after Anicetus, attempted to excommunicate Polycrates of Ephesus and all other bishops of Asia for their Quartodecimanism. According...

the Delian League. In the 6th century BC, it was subdued by the tyrant Polycrates of Samos and dedicated to the Delian Apollo. The southern half of Rheneia...

which he believed to have been written by Polycrates of Ephesus (c. 130s–196) in the second century. Polycrates believed that John was the one "who reclined...

and severed ties with these ancient churches, whose bishops included Polycrates of Ephesus; in response he was rebuked by Irenaeus and others, according...

time in Samos. According to Himerius, he was invited there to educate Polycrates, the future tyrant of Samos, who Strabo reports was one of the main subjects...

Around October or November 197 BC, the Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus, Polycrates of Argos, came to Alexandria, and arranged for Ptolemy V to be declared...

inspirations, could be the Greek tale of Polycrates or Polykrates, ruler of Samos. According to Herodotus, Polycrates was making a treaty with Amasis the king...

accounts of the fate of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, in Herodotus' Histories, Book III. The ballad is set at the court of Polycrates, where he is visited...

ruler of ancient Persia September – Bardiya, ruler of ancient Persia Polycrates, tyrant of Samos Zichan, statesman of the State of Zheng Briant, Pierre...

commissions at their own expense. Caligula planned to rebuild the palace of Polycrates at Samos, to finish the temple of Didymaean Apollo at Ephesus, and house...

over the Python". The Walters Art Museum. Walter Burkert, "Kynaithos, Polycrates and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo" in Arktouros: Hellenic studies presented...