A. Abronychus – Athenian commander and diplomat; Acacius of Caesarea – bishop of Caesarea; Acesias – physician; Acestorides – tyrant of Syracuse; Achaeus – general; Achaeus of Eretria – poet; Achermus – sculptor; Achilles Tatius – writer; Acron – physician; Acrotatus I – son of King Cleomenes of Sparta; Acrotatus II – King of Sparta, grandson of the above ...

Periods. The Alexandrine grammarians, and most likely Aristophanes of Byzantium in particular, seem to have been the first to divide Greek comedy into what became the canonical three periods: Old Comedy (ἀρχαία archaia), Middle Comedy (μέση mese) and New Comedy (νέα nea).These divisions appear to be largely arbitrary, and ancient comedy almost certainly …

Byzantium (/ b ɪ ˈ z æ n t i ə m,-ʃ ə m /) or Byzantion (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul today. The Greek name Byzantion and its Latinization Byzantium continued to be used as a name of Constantinople sporadically and to varying degrees during the thousand year …

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Selene (/ s ɪ ˈ l iː n iː /; Greek: Σελήνη pronounced [selɛ̌ːnɛː], meaning "Moon") is the goddess and the personification of the Moon.Also known as Mene, she is traditionally the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and the dawn goddess Eos.She drives her moon chariot across the heavens.

Hellenistic astrology is a tradition of horoscopic astrology that was developed and practiced in the late Hellenistic period in and around the Mediterranean Basin region, especially in Egypt.The texts and technical terminology of this tradition of astrology were largely written in Greek (or sometimes Latin).The tradition originated sometime around the late 2nd or early 1st century …