Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Plutarch, Phryne, Bakis, Brachyllas, Antigenidas, Calamis, Proxenus of Boeotia, Bacchius of Tanagra, Oxythemis of Coroneia, Eurybotadas, Perses. Excerpt: Antigenidas may refer to: References (URLs online) This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870). A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Bacchius of Tanagra, (or Baccheius, Greek: ), (3rd century BC), was one of the earliest commentators on the writings of Hippocrates, and was a native of Tanagra in Boeotia. He was a follower of Herophilus, and a contemporary of Philinus, and must therefore have lived in the 3rd century BC. Of his writings (which were both valuable and interesting) nothing remains but a few fragments preserved by Erotianus and Galen, by whom he is frequently mentioned. Notes Sources A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Bakis or Bacis (i.e. "speaker," from the Greek ) is a general name for the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in Greece from the 8th to the 6th century B.C. Suidas mentions three: a Boeotian, an Arcadian and an Athenian. The Boeotian The first Bakis, who was the most famous, was said to have been inspired by the nymphs of the Corycian Cave. His oracles, of which specimens are extant in Herodotus and Pausanias, were written in hexameter verse, and were considered to have been strikingly fulfilled. Apocryphal oracular pronouncements in dactylic hexameters circulated under his name during times of stress, such as the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars. The Arcadian The Arcadian was said to have cured the women of Sparta of a fit of madness. Many of the oracles which were current under his name have been attributed to Onomacritus. Evolution.
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