Biography and Mythology

• Zacharias . 1. An ecclesiastical writer, commonly known by the name of ZACHARIAS RHETOR. He was bish
• Zacharias 2. The preceding should no doubt be distinguished from Zacharias surnamed Scholasticus. Th
• Zacharias 3. Patriarch of Jerusalem; a Latin translation of whose Epistola ad Eccles. Hierosol. de A
• Zacharias 4. Patriarch of Alexandria, respecting whose synodic letter to Joannes Abdos the reader is
• Zacharias 5. There are several more ecclesiastics and others of this name, respecting whom the reade
• Zacynthus a son of Dardanus of Psophis who is said to have led a colony to the island of Zacynthus,
• Zagreus a surname of the mystic Dionysus (Διόνυσος χθόνιος), whom Zeus, in the form of a dragon, i
• Zaleucus the celebrated lawgiver of the Epizephyrian Locrians, is said to have been originally a sl
• Zalmoxis or ZAMOLXIS (Ζάλμοξις, Ζάμολξις), said to have been so called from the bear's i skin (Ζάλμ
• Zanclus a mythical king, and son of Gegenus, from whom the town of Zancle in Sicily derived its na
• Zarbienus king of Gordyene, made overtures to Appius Claudius, when the latter was staying at Antioc
• Zarex a hero who was believed to have been instructed in music by Apollo, and had an heroum near
• Zariadres the younger brother of Hystaspes, was the hero of the celebrated love-story of Zariadres a
• Zarzas or ZARXAS (Ζάρζας, Ζάρξας), a Libyan, commander of a portion of the mercenary troops which
• Zegabenus, Georgius Georgius. a Byzantine writer of late date, wrote a work on the seven vowels and the twenty
• Zeilas son of Nicomedes, king of Bithynia, and Ditizele. In consequence of the intrigues of his s
• Zelus the personification of zeal or strife, is described as a son of Pallas and Styx, and a bro
• Zenas a sculptor, known by the inscriptions on two busts in the Museum of the Capitol. Miller st
• Zeneus or ZENIS (Ζηνεύς, Ζηνίς), of Chios wrote a work on his native country. (Athen. 13.601 f.)
• Zenobia the wife of Rhadamistus, king of Armenia, at the accession of Nero, of whom Tacitus relate
• Zenobia queen of Palmyra. After the death of her husband, Odenathus, about A. D. 266, she assumed
• Zenobius sometimes erroneously called ZENODOTUS, was a writer who lived at Rome in the time of Hadr
• Zenobius St. (Ζηνοβιος). 1. A native of Aegae in Cilicia, born of Christian parents, and carefully
• Zenobius 2. The physician mentioned by Eusebius (Hist. Eccles, 8.13) as having been a presbyter at
• Zenodorus tetrarch of Trachonitis and the surrounding country, disturbed his neighbours by his preda
• Zenodorus a Greek artist, whose native place is not stated; but, from the fact of his beginning his
• Zenodotus . 1. Of EPHESUS, a celebrated grammarian, was the first superintendent of the great librar
• Zenodotus 2. Of ALEXANDRIA, a grammarian, lived after Aristarchus, whose recension of the Homeric po
• Zenodotus 3. Of TROEZEN, wrote a history of Umbria, in which he spoke of the rape of the Sabine wome
• Zenodotus 7. A NEO-PLATONIC philosopher, was a favourite of Proclus, whom he succeeded in his school
• Zenon historical. 1. An officer in the service of Antiochus the Great, who left him in charge of
• Zenon 4. A native of Tarsus, the son of Dioscorides, a disciple of Chrysippus, and his successor
• Zenon 5. A native of Citium. respecting whom Suidas is in doubt whether he should be classed wit
• Zenon 6. A grammarian mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (7.35), as the author of some epigrams, as
• Zenon 7. An Epicurean philosopher, a native of Sidon. He was a contemporary of Cicero, who heard
• Zenon 8. Diogenes Laertius (7.16) speaks of Zenon the younger. Whom he means by that name is not
• Zenon 9. An orator, a native of Laodiceia. He conferred many benefits upon his native town. Like
• Zenon 10. A native of Alexandria, of Jewish extraction, mentioned by Suidas. He renounced his co
• Zenon the name of several physicians, whom it is perhaps hardly possible to distinguish with cer
• Zenon 1. One of the most eminent of the followers of Herophilus (Galen, De Differ. Puls. 4.8, vo
• Zenon 2. An officer in the service of king Philippus. He was one of the governors of Athamania,
• Zenon 2. A native of Cyprus in the fourth century after Christ, the tutor of Ionicus, Magnus, an
• Zenon 3. A native of Athens, mentioned in the spurious work De Medicinis Expertis, ascribed to G
• Zenon 2. The son of Attis, or Attines, was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria, and a sculptor evid
• Zenon or ZENO, ecclesiastical. Works Sermones In the year 1508 a volume was published (Venet. ap
• Zenon or ZENO, emperor of the East, A.D.474-491,was descended from a noble Isaurian family. His
• Zenon 3. Son of Polemon, king of Pontus, was crowned king of Armenia by Germanicus at Artaxata,
• Zenon philosophers. 1. Of CITIUM, a city in the island of Cyprus, founded by Phoenician settlers
• Zenon 2. Of ELEA (Velia), son of Teleutagoras, and favourite disciple of Parmenides. He was with
• Zenon literary. 1. An historical writer, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (7.35) as the author of
• Zenon 2. An historical writer, a contemporary of Polybius, a native of Rhodes. Works A Work on R
• Zenon 3. A native of Sidon, the son of Musaeus, whom Suidas mentions, and states to have been a
• Zenophanes a Greek writer mentioned twice by Athenaeus (x. p. 424c., xiii. p. 576d), from whom it app
• Zenothemis wrote a poem entitled Περίπλους, in which he related various strange and wonderful stories
• Zephyritis a surname of Aphrodite, derived from the promontory of Zephyrium in Egypt. (Athen. 7.318;
• Zephyrus the personification of the west wind, is described by Hesiod (Theog. 579) as a son of Astr
• Zerynthia a surname of Aphrodite, from the town of Zerinthus in Thrace, where she had a sanctuary sa
• Zetes a son of Boreas and Oreithyia, and a brother of Calais. Zetes and Calais, called the Borea
• Zethus a son of Zeus and Antiope, at Thebes, and a brother of Amphion. According to some (Hom. Od
• Zeus the greatest of the Olympian gods, and the father of gods and men, was a son of Cronos and
• Zeus 1. The Arcadian Zeus (Ζεὺς Λυκαῖος) was born, according to the legends of the country, in
• Zeus 2. The Dodonaean Zeus (Ζεὺς Δωδωναῖος or Πελασγικός) possessed the most ancient oracle in
• Zeus 3. The Cretan Zeus (Ζεὺς Δικταῖος or Κρηταγενής). We have already given the account of him
• Zeus 4. The national Hellenic Zeus, near whose temple at Olympia in Elis, the great national pa
• Zeuxiades artists. 1. A statuary of the school of Lysippus. [SILANION, p. 818b.] An interesting conf
• Zeuxiades 2. A vase painter, whose name appears on the bottom of a vase in the Canino collection. Th
• Zeuxidamus . 1. A king of Sparta, and tenth of the Eurypontidae. He was grandson of Theopompus, and f
• Zeuxidamus 2. A son of Leotychides, king of Sparta. He was also named Cyniscus. He died before his fa
• Zeuxippe . 1. A sister of Pasithea or Praxithea, was a Naiad and married to Pandion, by whom she be
• Zeuxippus a Boeotian, one of the partisans of the Romans. When Brachyllas was made Boeotarch he and
• Zeuxippus artists. 1. A painter, of Heracleia, who is mentioned by Socrates in the Protagoras of Pla
• Zeuxis a general in the service of Antiochus the Great. He was engaged in the war with Molo, whom
• Zeuxis a philosopher of the sceptical school, the disciple of Aenesidemus. Diogenes Laertius (9.1
• Zeuxis 1. A contemporary of Strabo, probably about the middle or end of the first century B. C. H
• Zeuxis 2. A native of Tarentum (Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. " Epid. VI." i. praef. vol. xvii. pt.
• Zeuxis artists. 1. The celebrated painter, who excelled all his contemporaries except Parrhasitus
• Zeuxis 2. An artist in gold (aurifex) in the household of Augustus, whose freedman he was, as we
• Ziboetes or ZIPOETES (Ζιβοίτης or Ζιποίτης). 1. King of Bithynia, the son of Bas. He reigned for fo
• Ziboetes 2. Son of the preceding, who established himself in a part of Bithynia, and against whom N
• Zoe 1. Surnamed Carbonopsina, the wife of Leo VI. the philosopher, who reigned A. D. 886-911.
• Zoe 2. The daughter of Constantinus IX. was married first to Romanus III. Argyrus, who succeed
• Zoilus 2. A sculptor of Corinthian vases, in the household of Agrippa, according to Raoul-Rochett
• Zoilus 2. A grammarian. who, according to the greater number of authorities, was a native of Amph
• Zoilus a physician, who must have lived in or before the first century after Christ, as he is quo
• Zoilus artists. 1. A medallist, whose name occurs on the coins of Perseus, king of Macedonia, in
• Zonaras, Joannes Joannes (Ἰωάννης ὁ Ζωναρᾶς), a celebrated Byzantine historian and theologian, lived in the
• Zopyrion 2. A grammarian, the author of the first part of the Λειμὼν λέξεων ποικίλων (from A to E),
• Zopyrus historical. 1. A distinguished Persian, son of Megabyzus, one of the seven chiefs who kill
• Zopyrus is mentioned by Pliny as one of the eminent silver chasers who flourished in the time of P
• Zopyrus 2. The son of Megabyzus, and the grandson of the preceding, revolted from the Persians, an
• Zopyrus 4. The Physiognomist, attributed many vices to Socrates in an assembly of his disciples, w
• Zopyrus 3. Of Byzantium, an historian (Plut. Parall. Min. 100.36), was probably the author of Μιλή
• Zopyrus . 1. A surgeon at Alexandria, the tutor of Apollonius Citiensis and Posidonius (Apoll. Cit
• Zopyrus 2. An acquaintance of Scribonius Largus in the first century after Christ (Scr. Larg. De C
• Zoroaster or ZOROASTRES, the ZARATHUSTRA of the Zendavesta, and the ZERDUSHT of the Persians, was th
• Zorzines king of the Siraci, a people in the neighbourhood of the Caucasus, in the resign of the em
• Zosimus . 1. A learned freedman of the younger Pliny, remarkable for his talents as a comedian and
• Zosimus 2. Prefect of Epeirus under Valentinian and Valens. He is mentioned in connection with som
• Zosimus 3. A Greek historian, who lived in the time of the younger Theodosius (Evagrius, Hist. Ecc
• Zosimus 4. A native of Ascalon, or, according to ether accounts, of Gaza. He lived in the time of
• Zosimus 6. An abbot, whose διαλογισμοί were edited by P. Possinus, in his Thesaurus Asceticus, p.
• Zosimus The short pontificate of this Roman bishop, which lasted from the 18th of March, A. D. 417
• Zosimus, M. Canuleius M. Canuleius. a geld and silver chaser, whose skill and probity are praised in an extant i
• Zosteria a surname of Athena among the Epienemidian Locrians. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Ζωστήρ; comp. Hdt.
• Zoticus, Aurelius or Aurelius The Aurelius or Aurelius The. surnamed The Cook, from the profession of his father, was a nati
• Zygia and ZYGIUS (Ζυγία and Ζυγίος), are surnames of Hera and Zeus, describing them as presiding