Epicles Explained

Epicles (Epiklês) (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἐπικλῆς) was the name of several prominent Ancient Greeks:

• Epicles, an Ancient Greek medical writer who lived after Bacchius, and therefore probably in the 2nd or 1st century BC. Epicles is quoted by Erotianus,^[1] who wrote a commentary on the obsolete words found in the writings of Hippocrates, which he arranged in alphabetical order.
• Epicles of Troy, a Lycian or Trojan prince killed by Ajax.^{[2] [3]}
• Epicles of Hermione, a musician who played the lyre, mentioned by Plutarch.^[4]
• Epicles, the eponymous archon of Athens of 131–130 BC
• Epicles, the father of Proteas, an Athenian admiral in the Peloponnesian War, mentioned by Thucydides.^[5]
• Epicles of Thespiae, mentioned on a dedication at Delphi.^[6]
• Epicleas, a Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Erotianus, Gloss. Hippocr. p. 16 (cited by Greenhill)
2. [Homer]
3. John Lemprière, Bibliotheca Classica: A Classical Dictionary(A. Strahan, 1801).
4. John Langhorne, William Langhorne, Plutarch's Lives, (Google eBook) Plutarch, (Thomas & Andrews, Boston, 1804) page 270.
5. [Thucydides]
6. http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/Images2/cciv243.athenaeus3.html The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis Book XIII Concerning Women (Page III)
7. Martin Hammond, The Peloponnesian War (Google eBook) (Oxford University Press, 2009) VIII 108.