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Epicharmus of Cos
Rabu, 2026-05-27 11:43:25Epicharmus of Cos (variantly Epicharmus of Kos, Epicharmus Comicus or Epicharmus Comicus Syracusanus; Ancient Greek: Ἐπίχαρμος ὁ Κῷος), thought to have...
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Senin, 2026-06-08 01:24:42from Magna Graecia. Others, such as Aeschylus and Epicharmus, worked for a long time in Sicily. Epicharmus can be considered Syracusan in all respects, having...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 09:32:27two highly noted Sicilian-Greek philosophers, while the Syracusan-Greek Epicharmus is held to be the inventor of comedy. One of the most famous intellectuals...
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Selasa, 2026-05-12 14:47:15lines survive. The Epicharmus was inspired by the philosophical hypotheses developed by the Sicilian poet and philosopher Epicharmus of Kos, after which...
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Selasa, 2026-03-24 02:26:42"Pallas" is obscure, according to a fragment from an unidentified play of Epicharmus (between c. 540 and c. 450 BC), Athena, after having used his skin for...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 15:19:21to Heracles, mentions "Orpheus, Hesiod, tragedies, Choerilus, Homer, Epicharmus". Aristotle did not believe that the poems were by Orpheus; he speaks...
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Jumat, 2026-03-06 06:20:20medicine. He wrote a treatise upon the works of Epicharmus, in which, on the authority of Epicharmus and Pythagoras himself, he maintained that the Doric...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 21:55:48from Magna Graecia. Others, such as Aeschylus and Epicharmus, worked for a long time in Sicily. Epicharmus can be considered Syracusan in all respects, having...
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Jumat, 2025-12-12 19:47:11skeptics in arguing against the Stoics. According to the commentator, Epicharmus of Kos, an Old Comedy poet known for philosophical themes in his plays...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:30:26"Italian" Philosophy Book 8: Pythagoreans Pythagoras, Theano, Empedocles, Epicharmus, Archytas, Alcmaeon, Hippasus, Philolaus, Eudoxus Book 9: Unaffiliated...
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Selasa, 2026-04-07 03:16:48who wrote a commentary on Heraclitus. The Pythagorean and comic writer Epicharmus of Kos has fragments which seem to reproduce the thought of Heraclitus...
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Selasa, 2026-06-02 15:18:00The Greek poet Homer mentioned a kind of blood sausage in the Odyssey, Epicharmus wrote a comedy titled The Sausage, and Aristophanes' play The Knights...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 23:25:47Greek texts including works by Archestratus, Aeschylus, Steischorus, Epicharmus, Nikophon, Aristophanes and Pherecrates. In The Deipnosophists, Athenaeus...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 19:00:39palace of the Municipal Theatre of Syracuse, built so that "the land of Epicharmus would have a theatre suited" to host the artistic life of the population...
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Jumat, 2026-06-05 16:13:47Axiopistus created forgeries he attributed to 5th-century BCE writer Epicharmus of Kos. In the 3rd century CE, a certain Septimius produced what appeared...
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Jumat, 2026-05-15 02:34:05brought against him by Meletus. In this dialogue, Socrates refers to Epicharmus of Kos as "the prince of Comedy" and Homer as "the prince of Tragedy"...
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Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:51:18invented eleven letters; Simonides, too, invented four letters – O E Z PH; Epicharmus of Sicily, two – P and PS. The Greek letters Mercury is said to have brought...
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Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:28:38mention of the Greek term ὁλοθούριον (holotoúrion) · is found in the poet Epicharmus around 450 BC. Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus all used the generic...
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Senin, 2025-11-17 23:28:51Tagiades lugens Mabille, 1883 Tagiades khasiana Moore, 1884 Tagiades epicharmus Fruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades obscurus Mabille, 1876 Tagiades distans Moore...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 11:11:03and “people.” This motif was used in a number of comedies (notably by Epicharmus), none of which have survived, as well as in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The...
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Selasa, 2026-05-26 07:10:39time of "Ninos" (personifying Nineveh to Greeks) and Belos ("ruler"). Epicharmus of Kos and Phormis are reported as having been among the first to invent...
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Selasa, 2026-02-03 10:36:05Tarentum. The following authors wrote in Doric, preserved in fragments: Epicharmus comic poet and writers of South Italian Comedy (phlyax play), Mithaecus...
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Selasa, 2026-03-31 08:52:44and culture. The poets Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides, Aeschylus, and Epicharmus were active at his court, as well the philosopher Xenophanes. He was an...
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Rabu, 2026-05-27 08:43:35(possibly the earliest by an Alexandrian writer), and analyses of the poets Epicharmus of Kos and Sophron. Apollodorus produced numerous other critical and grammatical...
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Kamis, 2026-05-28 06:47:59Miletus, early Greek historian Miltiades, renowned Olympic chariot-racer Epicharmus, Greek poet Atossa, Achaemenid queen (approximate date) Arcesilaus II...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 01:41:23period and in it, it seems, the theatrical activities of the playwrights Epicharmus, Phormis and Deinolocus took place. At Syracuse, Aeschylus put on "The...
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Rabu, 2026-04-22 06:38:32Apollo. The lost comedic play, Hebes Gamos ("The Marriage of Hebe") by Epicharmus of Kos, depicted the wedding feast of Hebe and Heracles. In Theocritus's...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 19:28:29the ancient world, and was the birthplace of notable figures such as Epicharmus, Archimedes, and many others. It also hosted influential personalities...
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Kamis, 2026-03-26 16:38:28had its foundations in the mime, which the Sicilian poets Sophron and Epicharmus had cultivated half a century earlier. These works, admired and imitated...
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Senin, 2026-05-25 05:04:54Susarion of Megara (fl. c. 580 BC) Epicharmus of Kos (fl. between c. 540 – c. 450 BC) Phormis (late 6th century) Dinolochus (fl. 487 BC) Euetes (fl. 485...
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Senin, 2026-03-30 12:36:20Echecrates Pythagorean Ecphantus Pythagorean Empedocles Presocratic, Pluralist Epicharmus of Kos Pythagorean Epictetus Stoic wrote The Enchiridion, a handbook of...
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Selasa, 2025-11-04 13:41:28string band Agrōstīnos ('The Country-Dweller' or 'Clodhopper'), a work by Epicharmus of Kos This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-11 00:24:16attributed to Epicharmus of Kos. Modern scholars believe Axiopistus created the poem by cobbling together a number of extracts of Epicharmus and other sources...
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Senin, 2025-12-29 20:28:27Xenophanes 51 Ecphantus 81 Xeniades 22 Heraclitus 52 Xenophilus 82 Gorgias 23 Epicharmus 53 Diocles, Echecrates, Polymnastus, Phanton, and Arion 83 Licophron 24...
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Selasa, 2026-03-10 20:01:46an inscription found in Peiraeus that reads: "[name missing], son of Epicharmus, has offered to Munichus". Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.717; Antoninus Liberalis...
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Kamis, 2026-04-23 19:18:38475 BC). Of the Ionians. Emphasized the mutability of the universe. Epicharmus of Kos (c. 530 – 450 BC). Comic playwright and moralist. Parmenides of...
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Senin, 2026-03-23 07:36:14tyrant Phalaris To Polystratus and Daescus To Nausicles To Aristolochus To Epicharmus To Timosthenes To Aristolochus To Amphidamas and Thrasybulus To Pelopidas...
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Sabtu, 2026-01-10 03:17:14Metron (Greek: Μέτρων) was the son of Epicharmus from Pydna. He was a hetairos and trierarch of the Hydaspes fleet of Nearchus. He may be identical with...
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Rabu, 2026-05-13 16:22:57kammaros a kind of lobster, Epicharmus.60, Sophron.26, Rhinthon.18:-- also kammaris, idos Galen.6.735.) (komaris a fish Epicharmus.47.) κόμβοι komboi 'molars'...
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Selasa, 2026-02-24 14:03:09in the classical world as the author of a notorious (lost) sex manual. Epicharmus of Kos flourished sometime between c. 540 and c. 450 BC; a dramatist and...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 05:07:21use of the building for religious services, and cultural activities. Epicharmus of Kos (6th–5th century BC), comic playwright Hippocrates (5th century...
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Sabtu, 2025-05-03 00:15:21Oedipus and the Sphinx. The riddle-contest is first alluded to in a play by Epicharmus of Kos. Goldberg 1993, 13–15. Aramaic first century BCE or CE Kahramâneh...
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Senin, 2025-04-21 09:34:39Aristotle identified him as one of the originators of comedy, along with Epicharmus of Kos. He was said to be the first to introduce actors with robes reaching...
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Jumat, 2026-04-03 11:50:10Pythagoras, and he himself is mentioned in the writings of Heraclitus and Epicharmus. By his own surviving account, he was an itinerant poet who left his native...
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Minggu, 2025-12-14 01:28:05Ezekiel the Tragedian (3rd century BC) Exagōgē Susarion of Megara (~580 BC) Epicharmus of Kos (~540–450 BC) Phormis, late 6th century BC Dinolochus, 487 BC Euetes...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 18:24:33from Magna Graecia. Others, such as Aeschylus and Epicharmus, worked for a long time in Sicily. Epicharmus can be considered Syracusan in all respects, having...
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Kamis, 2025-10-30 22:45:12Ancient Greek σικαλίς/sikalis, a small, black-headed bird, mentioned by Epicharmus, Aristotle, and other authors. It was perhaps a warbler in the genus Sylvia...
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Senin, 2025-04-21 09:54:12with Cratinus. Aristotle also notes that Chionides "lived long after Epicharmus". But Athenaeus also noted that some critics at the time regarded Chionides'...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 01:48:31descending into the theatre to put on comedies and tragedies in the time of Epicharmus and Aeschylus. Regarding the Grotta del Ninfeo, the Syracusan Giuseppe...
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Jumat, 2020-09-25 17:18:39Orya may refer to: Orya (play), an ancient Greek comedy by Epicharmus Orya (centipede), a genus of centipedes Orya language, a language of West Papua,...
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Minggu, 2024-02-25 09:35:31making its closest approach to Earth. Its next appearance occurs in 1997. Epicharmus of Kos, Greek dramatist (approximate date; d. c. 450 BC)[citation needed]...
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Jumat, 2026-05-15 02:39:46BC) Hippocrates of Cos, Greek physician (approximate year) (d. 375 BC) Epicharmus, Greek poet (b. 550 BC) Panini, Hindu Indian grammarian (b. 520 BC) Themistocles...
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Kamis, 2025-09-25 00:23:37from Magna Graecia. Others, such as Aeschylus and Epicharmus, worked for a long time in Sicily. Epicharmus can be considered Syracusan in all respects, having...
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Kamis, 2026-05-14 09:06:56Sicily and the Doric-Siceliote comedy itself, whose main exponents were Epicharmus of Kos and Phormis, served as a model for the subsequent Attic Greek comedy...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 08:56:25the lost late fifth-century comedy Amykos, by the Sicilian playwright, Epicharmus of Kos. Elliott 2015, p. 440. Smith & Wayte 1890, p. 440. Tuck, Steven...
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Kamis, 2023-09-07 15:03:34The Orya (literally meaning "The pork") is a Greek comedy written by Epicharmus in 500 BC, mentioned by Hesychius. The boastful chef: the discourse of...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 11:34:47western spur of Mount Ida with a maximum elevation of 780 m. The poet Epicharmus (fl. 540 - 450 BCE) refers to the mountain as "snowcapped" (ἀγάννιφα)...
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Minggu, 2026-05-31 10:37:58(born 1953, United States) Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929–2022, Germany) Epicharmus of Kos (late 6th – early 5th c. BCE, Ancient Greece) Paul Ernst (1866–1933...
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Sabtu, 2025-04-26 22:33:29Regarding the time in which he lived, we know that he was older than Epicharmus, which puts him some time before that man's lifetime, 540 to 445 BCE....
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Sabtu, 2025-12-06 03:15:25Epaminondas was a general who studied Pythagoreanism under Lysis of Tarentum. Epicharmus of Kos was a comedian who criticised Xenophanes and used relativism as...
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Minggu, 2025-06-01 06:20:07Peparethus, (4th century BC) Empedocles, (490 BC-430 BC)[a][b][c][d][e] Epicharmus, (c. 540-450 BC)[d] Epicurus, (341 BC-270 BC)[b][c][d][e] Epimenides,...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 02:08:46of Empedocles. Little of what he wrote survives today. Lost plays of Epicharmus of Kos. He wrote between 35 and 52 comedies, many of which have been lost...
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Kamis, 2026-04-09 16:50:56specified, but Euripides' Cyclops is set in Sicily, possibly following Epicharmus, portrayed as barbarous and desolate and hostile. This was not an accurate...
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Kamis, 2022-11-24 15:46:49Caledoniophasma Günther, 1953 Cnipsus Zompro, 2001 Dimorphodes Wood-Mason, 1878 Epicharmus Westwood, 1859 Leosthenes Stål, 1875 Nisyrus Stål, 1875 (synonym Cotylosoma...
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Jumat, 2024-11-29 00:09:55the Locrians, but was prevented by Hiero I of Syracuse, as related by Epicharmus. Anaxilas' daughter was married to Hiero. Anaxilaus died in 476 BC, leaving...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 05:18:26(writer) Chaeremon Choerilus (tragic poet) Cleophon (poet) Cratinus Diphilus Epicharmus of Kos Eupolis Euripides Hegemon of Thasos Herodas Ion of Chios Iophon...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 05:12:12tetrameter those of movement" Ennius Epicharmus [it] in Varro De lingua Latina [it] V.68, on Luna: hinc Epicharmus Ennii Proserpinam quoque appelat, quod...
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Rabu, 2026-05-06 12:29:47vi. 4.) Among the persons thus removed was the celebrated comic poet Epicharmus, who had received his education at Megara, though not a native of that...
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Sabtu, 2026-02-07 20:41:39the Muses: Tzetzes in Hes. Op. 1 and the Parody of Catalogic Poetry in Epicharmus. In: Marco Ercoles, Lara Pagani, Filippomaria Pontani, Giuseppe Ucciardello:...
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Rabu, 2024-10-30 15:05:33well as a concise overview of the historical development of comedy from Epicharmus and Magnetes to Diphilus. This is the most frequently quoted work from...
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Rabu, 2024-06-26 00:43:17date of death of Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism. 550 BC—Birth of Epicharmus, Greek poet (d. 460 BC). Solar Eclipses and Ancient History. Jennings...
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Selasa, 2026-04-14 02:24:56interest. It was supplemented with biographies of Archimedes, Theocritus, Epicharmus of Kos and Tisias. This work was the fruit of his studies of classical...
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Selasa, 2026-04-07 08:18:32including Aesop, Archilochus, Aristophanes, Callimachus, Carneades, Epicharmus, Eratosthenes, Euripides, Hesiod, Hipponax, Lucretius, Philemon, and Philitas...
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Selasa, 2026-01-06 09:41:11Athenaeus, i. p.25, f. Athen. vi. p.235, f. This is incorrect, because Epicharmus had already introduced it 250 years earlier. However, Alexis may have...
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Selasa, 2021-05-04 13:06:42Ephialtes, leader of the radical democrats in Athens (assassinated) 460 BC Epicharmus, Greek poet (b. 550 BC) Panini, Hindu Indian grammarian (b. 520 BC) Themistocles...
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Minggu, 2026-05-24 06:04:50– Middle Comedy playwright Ephippus – pamphleteer Ephorus – historian Epicharmus of Kos – writer Epicles – name of several different individuals Epicrates...
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Sabtu, 2024-02-10 03:37:02Echetlus c g Echinothorax c g Ectentoria c g Elicius c g Entoria c g Epicharmus c g Erastus c g Erinaceophasma c g Erringtonia c g Eucarcharus c g Eupromachus...
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Minggu, 2025-04-20 10:55:12author of a poem or drama entitled Politeia, which some attributed to Epicharmus. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public...
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Minggu, 2026-04-05 21:48:03physicist Flavia Sparacino (born 1966) Napoleone Ferrara (born 1956) Epicharmus of Kos (c. 524–c. 435 BC), comic poet, dramatist, philosopher Antiochus...
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Kamis, 2026-01-01 15:11:44Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic Chunklet ambivalent Epicharmus favorable Stylus neutral...
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Senin, 2026-05-25 02:45:18Ephyra (Aetolia) Ephyra (Elis) Epiales Epic Cycle Epicaste Epicephisia Epicharmus of Kos Epicles (admiral) Epicles Epicrates of Ambracia Epicrates of Athens...
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Jumat, 2026-04-10 05:59:16whom the art received considerable improvements; as also from Hieron, Epicharmus, Philomctor, and Attalus. Via the old Romans and its decline in the Middle...
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:38:25emesa – Palaearctic A parasitoid on the gall midge Dasineura alopecuri A. epicharmus – Palaearctic A parasitoid on various gall midges A. epilobiellus – Netherlands...
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