Epicles

Epicles (Epiklês) 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]

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: William Alexander Greenhill (1870). "^{article name needed}". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 

1. ↑ Erotianus, Gloss. Hippocr. p. 16 (cited by Greenhill)
2. ↑ Homer, Iliad12, v, 378.
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 History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II: 6.
6. ↑ 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.