MENOECEUS — iuvenis Thebanus, Creontis fil. qui, cum Thebanis eô tempore, quô ab Argivis obsidebantur, redditum esset oraculum, urbem salvam fore, si ultimus ex Cadmi posteris spontaneâ se morte manibus eius devoveret, intelligens, oraculum illud ad se… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
Menoeceus — /meuh nee see euhs, syoohs/, n. Class. Myth. 1. a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes. 2. the son of Creon of Thebes, who took his own life because of the prophecy that… … Universalium
Menoeceus — /meuh nee see euhs, syoohs/, n. Class. Myth. 1. a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes. 2. the son of Creon of Thebes, who took his own life because of the prophecy that… … Useful english dictionary
МЕНЕКЕЙ — • Menoeceus, Μενοικεύς, 1. фивянин, внук Пенфея, отец Креонта, Гиппономы и Иокасты; 2. сын Креонта, внук предыдущего. Еиr. Рhоеп. 768. Когда «Семь против Фив» угрожали городу, то он для спасения его решился пожертвовать… … Реальный словарь классических древностей
Phoenician Women — Infobox Play | name = The Phoenician Women caption = Farewell of Oedipus to the Corpses of His Wife and Sons by Edouard Toudouze writer = Euripides chorus = Phoenician Women characters = Jocasta Slave Antigone Polyneices Eteocles Creon Teiresias… … Wikipedia
Epicureanism — Stephen Everson It is tempting to portray Epicureanism as the most straightforward, perhaps even simplistic, of the major dogmatic philosophical schools of the Hellenistic age. Starting from an atomic physics, according to which ‘the totality of… … History of philosophy
Epicurus — Infobox Philosopher name = polytonic|Έπίκουρος Epikouros |right|thumb|145px|Roman marble bust of Epicurus color = #B0C4DE region = Western philosophy era = Ancient philosophy birth = 341 BCE death = circa 270 BCE school tradition = Epicureanism… … Wikipedia
Theban kings in Greek mythology — The dynastic history of Thebes in Greek mythology is crowded with a bewildering number of kings between the city s new foundation (by Cadmus) and the Trojan War (see Ogyges). This suggests several competing traditions, which mythographers were… … Wikipedia
Tetrapharmakos — The Tetrapharmakos (τετραφάρμακος), or, The four part cure, is the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341 BC, Samos – 270 BC, Athens) remedy for leading the happiest possible life. The tetrapharmakos was originally a compound of four drugs (wax, tallow … Wikipedia
Anaxo — In Greek mythology, Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and either Astydamia, daughter of Pelops or Laonome, daughter of Guneus, or Hipponome, daughter of Menoeceus. She married Electryon, king of Mycenae, and her father s brother, being the son of… … Wikipedia
