Arcesilaus (disambiguation)

Arcesilaus or Arkesilaos (/ˌɑːrsɛsɪˈleɪ.əs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀρκεσίλαος) is a Greek name, Arcesilaus is the Latin spelling, which may refer to:

Four Kings of Cyrene

• Arcesilaus I of Cyrene
• Arcesilaus II of Cyrene, the Oppressor, the Tough, the Severe, the Harsh
• Arcesilaus III of Cyrene
• Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene

Others

• Arcesilaus, Greek philosopher

Statesmen

• Arcesilaus, murderer of Archagathus (son of Agathocles of Syracuse), when the latter left Africa in 307. Arcesilaus had formerly been a friend of Agathocles.
• Arcesilaus, one of the ambassadors sent to Rome by the Lacedaemonian exiles around 183 BCE, who was intercepted by pirates and killed.
• Arcesilaus of Megalopolis, was one of those who dissuaded the Achaean League from assisting Perseus of Macedon in the war against the Romans in 170 BCE. In the following years he was one of the ambassadors sent by the league to attempt the reconciliation of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Ptolemy VI Philometor.
• Arcesilaus (consul), Roman consul in 267 CE

Mythology

• Arcesilaus (mythology), one of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War
• Arcesilaus, a son of Odysseus and Penelope mentioned by Eustathius in his works on Homer

Artists & writers

• Arcesilaus, an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy, none of whose works are extant.
• Arcesilaus, a sculptor who made a statue of the goddess Diana, celebrated by an ode of Simonides. He may, therefore, have flourished about 500 BCE.
• Arcesilaus of Paros, was, according to Pliny, one of the first encaustic painters, and a contemporary of Polygnotus, around 460 BCE.
• Arcesilaus, a painter, the son of the sculptor Tisicrates, flourished about 280 or 270 BCE. Pausanias mentions a painter of the same name, whose picture of Leosthenes and his sons was to be seen in the Peiraeeus. Though Leosthenes was killed in the war of Athens against Lamia, 323 BCE, Sillig argues, that the fact of his sons being included in the picture favors the supposition that it was painted after his death, and that we may therefore safely refer the passages of Pausanias and of Pliny to the same person.
• Arcesilaus (sculptor)

Astronomy

• 20961 Arkesilaos, an asteroid

See also

• Archelaus (disambiguation), a name commonly transliterated as "Arcesilaus"

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Arcesilaus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 259.