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66 who at his appeal caused Smyrna to be rebuilt alter an earthquake in 178 The chief scenes of his activity were Athens and Smyrna, where he died about  190. Beside two treatises of rhetorical and technical import, we still possess fifty-five of his orations, which he took great pains to elaborate. They are characterized by depth and fulness of thought, and are written in powerful, concise, often difficult and obscure language. Some are eulogies on deities and cities (Rome, for instance, and Smyrna), others are declamations after ancient models, as the Panathenāïcus after Isocrătēs, and the speech against Leptĭnēs after Demosthenes. Others treat of historical subjects taken from the times of Greek independence. A peculiar interest attaches to the six Sacred Orations, so named because they treat of hints given by Asclepius on the cure of his illness, which he received in a state of somnambulism, and imparted aloud to his friends.

(4) Aristides Quintiliānus. A Greek musician, who lived probably in the 2nd century, and composed an encyclopædia of music (De Musĭcā) in three books. The first gave a concise account of harmony, rhythm, and metre, the second dealt with the educating influence of music on the soul, and the third described, on Pythagorean principles, the doctrine of arithmetic intervals, and the harmony of the universe as resting on the same relations. Notwithstanding many defects, the work has the merit of being the completest of its kind which has come down to us from antiquity.

 Aristippus. A Greek philosopher, a native of Cyrēnē, and a pupil of Socrates, after whose death in 399 he travelled about the Greek cities, imparting instruction for money. He was the founder of the Cyrenaic school, or the system of Hēdŏnism (from hēdŏnē = pleasure). His doctrine was, that as a basis for human knowledge the only things real and true are our sensations, not the external objects that produce them; that the aim of life is what all living things strive after, pleasure; and that virtue is only so far a good thing as it tends to the production of pleasure. The wise man shows his wisdom in governing his desires; mental training, indeed, being the only thing which can qualify us for real enjoyment. In pleasure there is no difference of kind, only of degree and duration. Aristippus' writings seem to have disappeared early; five letters in the Doric dialect, which have come down under his name, are undoubtedly spurious.

 Aristŏbūlus. A Greek historian, who in his youth accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns. In his eighty-fifth year, when living at Cassandrēa in Thrace, he wrote a work upon Alexander, in which he recorded his careful observations on geography, ethnography, and natural science. The book is highly praised for its trustworthiness, but only fragments of it have reached us. He and Ptolemy were the chief authorities for Arrian's Anăbăsis.

 Aristŏcles. (1) A Greek artist, and like his brother Cănăchus, a sculptor in bronze at Sĭcy̌on. He flourished about 480 ; and founded a school at Sicyon that lasted for a long time. (2) There was an Athenian sculptor of the same name and of the same period, author of a relief known as The Athenian Hoplite, one of our oldest monuments of Attic art. (See cut under ).

 Aristŏn. The second breakfast of the Greeks. (See .)

 Aristŏphănēs. (1) The comedian, who lived at Athens, 444–388. His father Philippus is said to have been not a native Athenian, but a settler from Rhodes or Egypt, who afterwards acquired the citizenship. However this may be, the demagogue Clĕōn, whose displeasure Aristophanes had incurred, tried to call in question his right to the citizenship. His first comedy came out in 427, but was not performed under his own name because of his youth; and several more of his plays were brought on the stage by Callistrătus and Philōnĭdēs, till in 424 he brought out the Knights in his own person. Forty-four of his plays were known in antiquity, though four of them were considered doubtful. Of these we possess eleven, the only complete Greek comedies which have survived, besides the titles, and numerous fragments, of twenty-six others. The eleven are: (1) The Acharnians, which gained him the victory over Cratīnus and Eupŏlis {{sc|b.c. 425, written during the great Peloponnesian war to induce the Athenians to make peace. (2) The Knights mentioned above, 424, also crowned with the first prize, and aimed directly against Cleon. (3) The Clouds, 423, his most famous and, in his own opinion, his most successful piece, though when played it only won the third prize. We have it only in a second, and apparently unfinished, edition. It is directed against the pernicious influence of the Sophists, as the representative of whom Sōcrătēs is