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Ephor

Ephor (Greek: ἔφορος) “overseer”: name of an annually elected official in ancient Sparta and its colonies Thera and Cyrene.Origin The origin of the ephorate is not known. Writing in the mid fifth-century, the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus states that it…

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Ephorus of Cyme

Ephorus of Cyme: (Greek: Ἔφορος ὁ Κυμαῖος): Greek historian, living in the fourth century BCE.Ephorus of Cyme, who lived from c.400 to c.330 BCE and was a disciple by Isocrates, is the author of a General History in thirty books, which…

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Epic Cycle

Epic Cycle (᾽Επικὸς κύκλος): set of twelve archaic epic poems, known to every educated Greek. The best-known were Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, which are also the only epics that have survived. …

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Epictetus

Epictetus (c.50-c.125): Greek-Roman philosopher, belonging to the Stoic school. A Roman, first quarter of the second century Born in Phrygia, Epictetus became…

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