(2) poet and musician of Miletus, settled at Athens; fl. c. 400-360 B.C. His poems were mainly dithyrambs (high-flown and wordy compositions) or cognate lyrics. His music, at first ill received on account of its vulgarizing innovations, became immensely popular.
Tissaphernes: Persian satrap of lower Asia Minor. See Alcibiades.
Tīthónus: a mortal beloved of Eos (Aurora), who obtained for him immortality, but forgot to obtain him immortal youth.
Troezen: a town in the east of the Peloponnese near the entrance of the Saronic Gulf.
Tyndareus’ sons: Castor and Pollux, the traditional preservers of seamen.
Typhōn: = Set; Egyptian malignant deity; brother, enemy, and slayer of Osiris.
Xenócrătes: 396-314 B.C.: philosopher from Chalcedon, disciple of Plato, and philosophic teacher and writer. His earnestness of character and application to study atoned for his lack of the Graces. Became head of the Academic school next but one after Plato.
Xenóphănes: philosopher of Colophon, and afterwards of Elea in Italy, in later part of sixth century B.C. Noted for his high conception of a Deity as neither anthropomorphic nor subject to human passions. His doctrines were embodied in hexameter verse.
Xenophōn: of Athens; the well-known historian, and leader of the retreat of the ‘Ten Thousand’ as recorded in his Anabasis. A philosophical adherent of Socrates and a voluminous writer. Lived c. 444-359 B.C.
Zacýnthus = Zante, the southernmost of the Ionian islands.