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Philocles
(895 words)
(Φιλοκλῆς;
Philoklês). [German version] [1] Athenian demagogue Athenian demagogue, elected to the office of
stratēgós in 406/5 BC and dispatched with the fleet to Conon [1] at Samos, both of whom thereupon were in command of the fleet in the Hellespont. Re-elected as a
stratēgós, and subsequently partially to blame for the defeat in 405 BC at Aigos Potamos, P. was captured and executed by Lysander [1] for having had the crews of two captured Spartan triremes thrown into the sea (Xen. Hell. 1,7,1; 2,1,32f.; Diod. Sic. 13…
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Strigilis
(292 words)
(Greek στλεγγίς/
stlengís, ξύστρα/
xýstra). [German version] [1] Implement for sports and cosmetics Ancient implement for sports and cosmetics, primarily of bronze or iron, for scraping off oil, sweat and dirt after practising sport and after visiting a steam bath (
laconica or
sudatoria) in the
balnea or thermae. It was part of a grooming set, which for the Greeks also included a sponge and a small bottle of oil (Alabastron, Lekythos [1]), and for the Romans an
ampulla (small bottle of oil) and a
patera (hand-dish for pouring water on the body or for holding oil). A
strigilis consisted of …
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Kline
(379 words)
[German version] (κλίνη;
klínē, bed). The
kline was used for sleeping, and in Greece from the 7th/6th cents. BC (later in Rome) also for dining. The
kline was the most important object of luxurious interior decoration; it had its place in private houses as well as in all rooms in which people ate ( Banquet, Prytaneion, Ritual feasts). As to public rooms in which
klinai were used for banquets, one must distinguish between halls designated specifically for meals, in which the furniture could stay in place, and rooms used for meals only sporadically, for which the
klinai, like all other furni…
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Niconidas
(47 words)
[German version] (Νικονίδας;
Nikonídas) from Thessaly. Whilst in the service of Mithridates [6?] VI. Eupator he was the engineer who built the ‘admirable’ war machines for the siege of Cyzicus in 73 BC (Plut. Lucullus 10,3; cf. App. Mithr. 73-75). Poliorcetics Groß, Walter Hatto (Hamburg)
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