Epicles

Epicles (Epiklês) (Ancient Greek: 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, 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.
• Epicles of Hermione, a musician who played the lyre, mentioned by Plutarch.
• 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.
• Epicles of Thespiae, mentioned on a dedication at Delphi.
• Epicles, a Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: William Alexander Greenhill (1870). Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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