• Bion (Βίων /ˈbaɪɒn/) was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is...
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  • Bion of Smyrna, also known as Bion of Phlossa, bucolic Greek poet (fl. 2nd century BC) Bion of Abdera, a Greek philosopher from the school of Democritus...
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    Moschus (redirect from Moschus of Syracuse)
    the paucity of evidence, it is also seen in the surviving bucolic of the generations after Moschus, including the work of Bion of Smyrna. Moschus' poetry...
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    (first attested in the Epitaph of Adonis (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Ἀδώνιδος) of Bion of Smyrna, fl. c. 100 BCE) . The number of Oreads includes but is not limited...
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  • known as Smyrna, mother of Adonis Smyrna (Amazon), a mythical eponym of a quarter in Ephesus Bion of Smyrna (c. 100 BC), Greek poet Chaka of Smyrna, 11th...
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    Dictys Cretensis, 4.15 Statius, Achilleid 296 Hyginus, Fabulae 96 Bion of Smyrna, Poems 2 Statius, Achilleid 640 Apollodorus, 3.13.8 Epic Cycle Fragments...
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  • of Ceos; Eusebius says he flourished in 467 BC Besantinus Roman-era poet Bianor (poet) author of 22 epigrams from the Greek Anthology Bion of Smyrna bucolic...
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  • Sermones 58.10 Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 8.82 Bion of Smyrna, 4.52  This article incorporates text from a publication...
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  • Anaximander Bion Empedocles Thales Aglaonice Anaxagoras Archytas Aristaeus Callippus Cleostratus Democritus Euctemon Eudoxus Heraclides Hicetas Hippocrates of Chios...
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    Polyphemus (category Children of Poseidon)
    Hermesianax, and Bion of Smyrna. Theocritus is credited with creating the genre of pastoral poetry. His works are titled Idylls and of these Idyll XI tells...
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    Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia, anonymous, sometimes ascribed to Bion of Smyrna 1st century CE: Achilleid by Statius 2nd century CE: The Speech of the...
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    Carthage Wei Qing, Chinese general Apollodorus of Athens, Greek writer, grammarian, and historian Bion of Smyrna, Greek poet Gaius Lucilius, Roman satirist...
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    Book of Job. M. L. West noted similarities with Aesop's fable "a debate between Winter and Spring" along with another similar work by Bion of Smyrna. J...
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    Selene (category Divine women of Zeus)
    Online version at Harvard University Press. Theocritus, Bion of Smyrna, Moschus, Theocritus, Bion et Moschus. Graece et Latine. Accedunt virorum doctorum...
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    pieces from Bion of Smyrna, Moschus, Theocritus, Anacreon, Catullus and Martial. He resided in Paris, and enjoyed the continued favor of the court. In...
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    mention from the art jury.[excessive quote] Bion, Joseph Duffield Reed – Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-521-57316-5...
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  • Bion Thales Theano Anaxagoras Anthemius Archytas Aristaeus Bryson Callippus Democritus Dicaearchus Dinostratus Eudemus Eudoxus Hippasus Hippias Hippocrates...
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    Daniël Heinsius (category Dutch people of Flemish descent)
    (1603), Theocritus, Bion of Smyrna and Moschus (1603), Aristotle's Ars poetica (1611), Publius Ovidius Naso's Metamorphoses, Clement of Alexandria (1616)...
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    André Chénier (category French people of Greek descent)
    mostly idylls and bucolics, imitated to a large extent from Theocritus, Bion of Smyrna and the Greek anthologists. Among the poems written or at least sketched...
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  • Pastoral elegy (category Genres of poetry)
    is Bion of Smyrna's poem lamenting the death of the mythological figure Adonis. The next earliest example is by an anonymous author, probably of the...
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  • Manfred, ed. (2007). Geschichte der antiken Texte (in German). p. 49. Bion, Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis, J. D. Reed (ed.), CUP, 2007, p. 72...
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    Leiden on behalf of Leicester. He died in London in 1591^ . Hubert Goltzius published his translations of Moschus and Bion of Smyrna in 1565. De veteri...
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  • Hermesianax, and Bion of Smyrna. The text of Aristophanes’ last extant play Plutus (Wealth) has survived, but with almost all of its choral odes missing...
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  • (anonymous) - Vid himlaporten (anonymous) An Hesperos, Op. 58, No. 3 (1909) Bion of Smyrna, translation is anonymous Povertade, Op. 58, No. 4 (1909) Jacopone da...
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  • Thomas Davey (florist) (category Date of birth not in Wikidata)
    Death of Mr. Thomas Davey", in his memory using the ancient "Epitaph on Bion" (anon.) (Bion of Smyrna) as his model: Ye beauteous offspring of the earth...
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  • Attalus of Rhodes Autolycus of Pitane Bion of Abdera Bryson of Heraclea Callippus Carpus of Antioch Chrysippus Cleomedes Conon of Samos Ctesibius Democritus...
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    The Counter-Earth is a hypothetical body of the Solar System that orbits on the other side of the Solar System from Earth. A Counter-Earth or Antichthon...
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  • This list of ancient Greek philosophers contains philosophers who studied in ancient Greece or spoke Greek. Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with...
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    satirist Bion of Borysthenes, the legislator Cercidas of Megalopolis, the diatribist Teles and Menippus of Gadara. However, with the rise of Stoicism...
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    Nicomachus, and Theon of Smyrna) XVII. Trigonometry: Hipparchus, Menelaus, Ptolemy XVIII. Mensuration: Heron of Alexandria XIX. Pappus of Alexandria XX. Algebra:...
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