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Cercidas (Ancient Gr****: Κερκιδᾶς Kerkidas; fl. 3rd
century BC) was a poet,
Cynic philosopher, and
legislator for his
native city Megalopolis. A papyrus...
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ancient sources offer various explanations for his death. Some, like
Cercidas and
Antisthenes of Rhodes, ****ert that he
committed suicide by self-asphyxiation...
- and let his city join the
Achaean League.
Around the same time the poet
Cercidas of
Megalopolis wrote a poem
about a "greedy
cormorant wealthpurse, that...
- v t e Gr****
lawgivers Aegimius Cercidas Charondas Cleisthenes Demonax Diagoras Diocles Draco Lycurgus Nicodorus Solon Zaleucus...
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Aegimius (mythological)
Cercidas (fl. 3rd
century BCE, Megalopolis)
Charondas (fl. 6th
century BCE,
Catania in Sicily)
Cleisthenes (c. 570 – c. 508 BCE...
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lawgivers Aegimius Cercidas Charondas Cleisthenes Demonax Diagoras Diocles Draco Lycurgus Nicodorus Solon Zaleucus...
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skeptic Monimus, the
moral satirist Bion of Borysthenes, the
legislator Cercidas of Megalopolis, the
diatribist Teles and
Menippus of Gadara. However, with...
- 300 cavalry, the
Arcadians 1,000
infantry from
Megalopolis commanded by
Cercidas, the
Boeotians 2,000
infantry and 200 cavalry, the
Acarnanians 1,000 infantry...
- York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929) The
Characters of Theophrastus: Herodes,
Cercidas, and the Gr****
cholliambic poets (except
Callimachus and Babrius) (London:...
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Chaeron of
Megalopolis (4th
century BC),
envoy of
Philip II of
Macedon Cercidas (3rd
century BC),
Cynic philosopher and poet
Philopoemen (253–183 BC),...
