People Relevant to Cicero - Correspondents of Cicero, Greeks Relevant to Cicero, Romans Relevant to Cicero, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Pompey (Paperback)

Chapters: Correspondents of Cicero, Greeks Relevant to Cicero, Romans Relevant to Cicero, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Pompey, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Gaius Asinius Pollio, Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Servius Sulpicius Rufus, Publius Licinius Crassus, Cato the Younger, Appius Claudius Pulcher, Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Antiochus of Ascalon, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Publius Vatinius, Titus Pomponius Atticus, Marcus Caelius Rufus, Lucius Munatius Plancus, Philo of Larissa, Cratippus of Pergamon, Zeno of Sidon, Aulus Allienus, Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Amafinius, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Antipater of Tyre, Trebonius, Diodotus the Stoic, Lucius Lucceius, Aulus Licinius Archias, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Apollonius Molon, Lucius Minucius Basilus, Gaius Matius, Aulus Caecina Severus, Hieronymus of Rhodes, Menippus of Stratonikeia, Demetrius of Magnesia, Calliphon, Trebatius Testa, Antipater of Derbe, Hegesaratus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 207. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: See also Antipater (disambiguation) for others of this name. Antipater of Derbe was a tyrant or prince of Derbe . He was a friend of Cicero 's, one of whose letters, of uncertain date, is addressed on Antipater's behalf to Quintus Philippus, proconsul of the province of Asia, who was offended with Antipater and therefore held his sons hostage. (Strab. xii. p. 392; Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 73.)Amyntas, the Lycaonian chieftain, murdered him and seized his principality.This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870). A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Appius Claudius Pulcher (97-49 BC), was a consul of the Roman Republic in 54 BC. He was an expert in Roman law and antiquities, especially the esoteric lore of the augural c...