Hicetas (Ancient Greek: Ἱκέτας or Ἱκέτης; c. 400 – c. 335 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the Pythagorean School. He was born in Syracuse, Magna Graecia...

Hicetas (Greek: Ἱκέτας or Ἱκέτης) was a Syracusan general and tyrant of Leontini, Magna Graecia, contemporary with the younger Dionysius and Timoleon...

Hicetas was a Pythagorean philosopher from Syracusae Sicily. Hicetas also may refer to: Hicetas (tyrant of Syracuse), Tyrant of Syracuse, 289 BC-278 BC...

Hicetas (Greek: Ἱκέτας or Ἱκέτης) was tyrant of Syracuse, Magna Graecia, during the interval between the reign of Agathocles and that of Pyrrhus. After...

Agathokles and Hicetas' assumption of power; this is sometimes referred to as the Fourth Democracy (289-287?). Nothing is known about it. Hicetas (289 BCE–280...

[citation needed] Dionysius was besieged in Syracuse by the Syracusan general Hicetas in 344 BC. The following year the Corinthian Timoleon installed a democratic...

believed the Earth to be one of several planets going around a central fire. Hicetas and Ecphantus, two Pythagoreans of the 5th century BC, and Heraclides Ponticus...

relation to philosophers such as Berkeley and Plato, as Copernicus to Hicetas, Philolaus, and Aristarchus: Kant succeeded in demonstrating what previous...

belonging to Agathocles Reign 317 - 289 BC Predecessor Timoleon Successor Hicetas Born 361 BC Himera Died 289 BC Syracuse Consort Theoxena Issue With first...

– 385 BC). In the 5th century BC the Greek Philosophers Philolaus and Hicetas had the thought on different occasions that the Earth was spherical and...

Herminus Peripatetic Hermippus of Smyrna Peripatetic Hermotimus of Clazomenae Hicetas Pythagorean Hierius fl c. 500 Neoplatonic Hierocles of Alexandria fl. c...

ancient views on earth motion, said that he "first ... found in Cicero that Hicetas supposed the earth to move." Notably, "Cicero" was the name attributed...

Cleomedes Cleostratus Conon Eratosthenes Euctemon Eudoxus Geminus Heraclides Hicetas Hipparchus Hippocrates of Chios Hypsicles Menelaus Meton Oenopides Philip...

Aristaeus Callippus Cleostratus Democritus Euctemon Eudoxus Heraclides Hicetas Hippocrates of Chios Meton Oenopides Parmenides Philip of Opus Philolaus...

daily about a central fire. A more conventional picture was supported by Hicetas, Heraclides and Ecphantus in the fourth century BCE who assumed that Earth...

citizen. Hicetas now received help from Carthage (60,000 men), but ill-success roused mutual suspicion; the Carthaginians abandoned Hicetas, who was besieged...

Cleomedes Cleostratus Conon Eratosthenes Euctemon Eudoxus Geminus Heraclides Hicetas Hipparchus Hippocrates of Chios Hypsicles Menelaus Meton Oenopides Philip...

precursors of the Heliocentric Theory: At first I found in Cicero that Hicetas supposed the earth to move. Later I also discovered in Plutarch that others...

writings have been lost; only a few fragments remain. Like the Pythagoreans Hicetas and Ecphantus, Heraclides proposed that the apparent daily motion of the...

Makedonia 348 Callipus is overthrown by Leptines 347 Leontini is overthrown by Hicetas 347 Plato, Greek philosopher, founder of Academy, dies. 347 Methymna is...

Byzantium. c. Derveni papyrus in a nobleman's grave in a necropolis of Lete. Hicetas, the tyrant of Leontini, again persuades Carthage to send a large army...

planets. In the 5th century BCE, the Greek philosophers Philolaus and Hicetas speculated separately that the Earth was a sphere revolving daily around...

Democedes 49 Timaeus 79 'Sophist': Name and Concept 20 Parmeniscus 50 Hicetas 80 Protagoras 21 Xenophanes 51 Ecphantus 81 Xeniades 22 Heraclitus 52 Xenophilus...

Cleostratus Conon of Samos Democritus Empedocles Hephaestio Heraclides Ponticus Hicetas Hippocrates of Chios Macrobius Martianus Capella Menelaus of Alexandria...

assassinated Medius, fl. 395 BC Panaetius, c. 615/609 BC Aenesidemus, 498-491 BC Hicetas, c. 347-338 BC Heracleides, fl. 278 BC Cleobulus, 6th century BC Dionysius...

needed]. In Cicero's writings, Copernicus found an account of the theory of Hicetas. Plutarch provided an account of the Pythagoreans Heraclides Ponticus,...

355 BC – Eudoxus c. 400 BC – c. 350 BC – Thymaridas c. 400 BC – 335 BC – Hicetas c. 390 BC − c. 320 BC – Dinostratus 384 BC – 322 BC – Aristotle 380 BC...

convulsed by a series of murders, whilst Callipus became tyrant of Catania and Hicetas of Leontini. According to Plutarch[citation needed], Plato was also caught...

Herostratus – arsonist Hesiod – poet Hesychius of Alexandria – grammarian Hicetas – philosopher Hiero I of Syracuse – tyrant of Syracuse Hiero II of Syracuse...

her daughter. Both were subsequently liberated and kindly received by Hicetas of Leontini, one of Dion's friends, but he was afterwards persuaded by...