Artemon (Ancient Greek : Ἀρτέμων) was a sculptor of ancient Greece who worked in Rome in the first century CE. In conjunction with Pythodorus, he made statues that adorned the palaces of the Caesars on the Palatine Hill. [1]
Pamphylia was a region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus. It was bounded on the north by Pisidia and was therefore a country of small extent, having a coast-line of only about 120 km with a breadth of about 50 km. Under the Roman administration the term Pamphylia was extended so as to include Pisidia and the whole tract up to the frontiers of Phrygia and Lycaonia, and in this wider sense it is employed by Ptolemy.
Theodotus of Byzantium was an Adoptionist theologian from Byzantium, one of several named Theodotus whose writings were condemned as heresy in the early church.
Artemon, a prominent Christian teacher in Rome, who held Adoptionist, or Nontrinitarian views. Little is known about his life.
A foresail is one of a few different types of sail set on the foremost mast (foremast) of a sailing vessel:
The Sidetic language is a member of the extinct Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family known from legends of coins dating to the period of approximately the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE found in Side at the Pamphylian coast, and two Greek–Sidetic bilingual inscriptions from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE respectively. The Greek historian Arrian in his Anabasis Alexandri mentions the existence of a peculiar indigenous language in the city of Side. Sidetic was probably closely related to Lydian, Carian and Lycian.
The Library of Pergamum is an ancient Greek building in Pergamon, Anatolia, today located nearby the modern town of Bergama, in the İzmir Province of western Turkey. It was one of the most important libraries in the ancient world.
Caius, Presbyter of Rome was a Christian author who lived and wrote towards the beginning of the 3rd century. Only fragments of his works are known, which are given in the collection entitled The Ante-Nicene Fathers. However, the Muratorian fragment, an early attempt to establish the canon of the New Testament, is often attributed to Caius and is included in that collection.
Artemon, a Greek painter, who is recorded by Pliny to have painted a picture of Queen Stratonice, from which it is presumed that he lived about B.C. 300. He also painted 'Hercules and Deianira;' but his most celebrated works were the pictures which were carried to Rome, and placed in the Octavian Portico, representing 'Hercules received amongst the Gods;' and the 'History of Laomedon with Apollo and Neptune.'
Artemon or Artamon is a given name of Greek origin. Notable people with the name include:
Artemon of Cassandreia was an ancient Macedonian grammarian, who seems to have lived after 316 BCE.
Artemon of Clazomenae was an annalist mentioned by the Roman writer Claudius Aelianus as the author of a work called Clazomenaean Terms, in which he mentioned that, at one time, the territory of Clazomenae was ravaged by a winged sow.
Artemon was a Spartan engineer who built the military engines for Pericles in his war against Samos in 441 BCE.
Artemon of Magnesia was a writer of ancient Greece known only as the author of a work on the virtues of women, the title of which is generally translated as Accounts of Deeds Done Courageously by Women, but also sometimes Tales of Feminine Virtue or Stories of the Virtuous Exploits of Women.
Artemon, called "Melopoios" (Μελοποιός), from his being a Melic poet, appears to have been a contemporary of the comic playwright Aristophanes.
Artemon of Miletus was a relatively well-known writer of ancient Greece on the interpretation of dreams and on incubation cures. He lived around the middle of the first century CE, and was said to have written during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero.
Artemon of Pergamon was a rhetorician of ancient Greece, a grammarian and writer who wrote a history of Sicily, which is now lost. We know of him primarily from his frequent mentions by ancient grammarians, especially the scholiasts on the lyric poet Pindar, about whom Artemon also wrote commentaries.
Artemon was a rhetorician of ancient Greece who seems to have lived during the early period of the Roman Empire. It is said that he lived during the reign of either Augustus or Tiberius. His works are mentioned several times by Seneca the Elder who has also preserved some fragments of his. Some of his theories on composition were also refuted by other rhetoricians such as Demetrius. Artemon, who edited some of Aristotle's correspondence, believed that a letter should be written like one side of a dialogue." Demetrius recommended a simpler format, devoid of interruptions and didactic style.
Artemon was a Syrian man of reputedly royal descent, who lived in and after the reign of Antiochus III the Great.
Artemon was a physician of ancient Rome, who was said by Roman naturalist and author Pliny the Elder to have made use of cruel, unusual, superstitious remedies, that Pliny himself thought of more as "abominations" instead of actual cures.
For epilepsy, Artemon has prescribed water drawn from a spring in the night, and drunk from the skull of a man who has been slain, and whose body remains unburnt.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Artemon (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 378.