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Archelaus (alchemist) Archelaus () was the author of a poem consisting of upwards of three hundred Greek Iamb (poetry), iambics, entitled Περὶ τῆς ῾Ιερᾶς Τέχνης (''Perì tês Hierâs Tékhnēs'', in Latin "De Sacra Arte"). Nothing is known of the ...

, author of a long poem in iambics called "Περὶ τῆς ῾Ιερᾶς Τέχνης" * Archelaus (geographer), author of a work on the countries visited by Alexander the Great *Archelaus,

rhetoric Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse ( trivium) along with grammar and logic/ dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or w ...

ian mentioned by

Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius ( ; , ; ) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving book ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a principal source for the history of ancient Greek ph ...

(2.17) *

Archelaus of Sparta Archelaus (, ''Ἀrkhélaos''; reigned from c. 790 to c. 760 BC) was the 7th Agiad dynasty king of Sparta. He was a son of Agesilaus I. Together with Charilaus, he conquered Elis. During his reign he also conquered the city of Aegys and sold the ...

(r. 790–760 BC), Agiad king of Sparta *

Archelaus (philosopher) Archelaus (; ; fl. 5th century BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher, a pupil of Anaxagoras, and may have been a teacher of Socrates. He asserted that the principle of Motion (physics), motion was the separation of hot f ...

(fl. 5th century BC), pupil of Anaxagoras *

Archelaus of Macedon Archelaus (; ; died 399 BC) was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon from 413 to 399 BC. He was a capable and beneficent ruler, known for the sweeping changes he made in state administration, the military, and commerce. By the time that ...

(r. 413–399 BC), king of Macedon *

Archelaus (son of Amyntas III) Archelaus (; died 359 BC) was the half-brother of Philip II, king of ancient Macedonia. He was the son of Amyntas III and his second wife, Gygaea. Philip executed Archelaus shortly after he became king in 359 BC, possibly due to the military thr ...

(d. 359 BC), half-brother of Philip II of Macedonia * Archelaus (son of Androcles) (fl. 321 BC), phrourarch of Aornus * Archelaus (phrourarch) (fl. 326 BC), phrourarch of Tyre * Archelaus of Priene (fl. c. 300 BC), an ancient Greek sculptor * Archelaus Chersonesita (fl. 3rd century BC), Egyptian epigrammatist *

Archelaus (Pontic army officer) Archelaus (; fl. during the latter half of the second century BC and first half of first century BC, died by 63 BC) was a prominent Greek general who served under King Mithridates VI of Pontus in northern Anatolia and was also his favorite general ...

(died 63 BC), general of Mithridates VI of Pontus *

Archelaus (high priest of Comana Cappadocia) Archelaus I (; fl. 1st century BC, died January/February 55 BC) was a high priest of the temple-state of Comana in Cappadocia who later became Egyptian king consort as second husband of Pharaoh Berenice IV. Family background Archelaus was a Ca ...

(died 55 BC), priest of Bellona in Comana, Cappadocia *

Archelaus (father of Archelaus of Cappadocia) Archelaus II (; fl. 1st century BC) was a High priest of the temple-state of Comana, Cappadocia. Background Archelaus II was a Cappadocian Greek nobleman. He was the son and namesake of the Roman Client Ruler and High Priest of Comana, Cappadocia, ...

(fl. 55–47 BC), priest of Bellona in Comana, Cappadocia *

Archelaus of Cappadocia Archelaus (; fl. 1st century BC and 1st century, died 17 AD) was a Roman client prince and the last king of Cappadocia. He was also husband of Pythodorida, Queen regnant of Pontus. Family and early life Archelaus was a Cappadocian Greek no ...

(r. 36 BC – 17 AD), king of Cappadocia *

Herod Archelaus Herod Archelaus (, ''Hērōidēs Archelaos''; 23 BC – ) was the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, including the cities Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea and Jaffa, for nine years (). He was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace the ...

(23 BC – c. 18 AD), ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, 4 BC – 6 AD *

Archelaus of Cilicia Archelaus (; born before 8 BC; died 38 AD) was a Cappadocian princeTacitus, Annals, 6.41 and a Roman client king of Cilicia Trachea and Eastern Lycaonia.Levick, ''Tiberius the Politician'', p.110 He is sometimes called ''Archelaus Minor'' (''Minor ...

(died 38 AD), king of Cicilia Trachaea and Eastern Lycaonia from 17 AD *Archelaus the deacon (died 235 AD), third-century saint martyred with

Quiriacus of Ostia Quiriacus was Bishop of Ostia, and suffered martyrdom during the reign of Emperor Severus Alexander. Quiriacus was martyred along with Maximus, his priest, and Archelaus, a deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christi ...

Archelaus (bishop of Carrhae) Archelaus may refer to: Historical persons * Archelaus (alchemist), author of a long poem in iambics called "Περὶ τῆς ῾Ιερᾶς Τέχνης" * Archelaus (geographer), author of a work on the countries visited by Alexander the Gre ...

(fl. 278 AD), bishop who held a public dispute with Manichaean heretics *

Archelaus (bishop of Caesarea) Archelaus () was bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia around the 5th century CE. Works Archelaus wrote a work against the heresy of the Messalians -- that is, the sect called the Euchites -- which is referred to by Photius Photius I of Constant ...

(fl. 5th century AD), bishop who wrote against the Messalian heresy *

Archelaus Tupper The Haldimand Affair (also called the Haldimand or Vermont Negotiations) was a series of negotiations conducted in the early 1780s (late in the American Revolutionary War) between Frederick Haldimand, the British governor of the Province of Que ...

(died 1781) sergeant in the Vermont militia, the circumstances of whose death resulted in the secret armistice between the

Vermont Republic The Vermont Republic, officially known at the time as the State of Vermont, was an independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791. The state was founded in January 1777, when delegates from 28 towns met ...

the British becoming publicly known

Mythical persons

Archelaus (son of Temenus) Archelaus ( means "leading the people, chief") was in Greek mythology a son of Temenus, a Heraclid, who, when expelled by his brothers, fled to king Cisseus in Macedonia. Cisseus promised him the succession to his throne and the hand of his daug ...

*Archelaus, son of

Heracles Heracles ( ; ), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a Divinity, divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of ZeusApollodorus1.9.16/ref> and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adoptive descent through ...

*Archelaus, son of

Electryon In Greek mythology, Electryon (;Ancient Greek: Ἠλεκτρύων) was a king of Tiryns and Mycenae or Medea in Argolis. Family Electryon was the son of Perseus and Andromeda and thus brother of Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, ...

and Anaxo, killed by the sons of Pterelaus *Archelaus, son of

Aegyptus In Greek mythology, Aegyptus or Ægyptus (; ) was a legendary king of ancient Egypt. He was a descendant of the princess Io through his father Belus, and of the river-god Nilus as both the father of Achiroe, his mother and as a great, great-g ...

. He was killed by his wife, Anaxibia, daughter of Danaus

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* ''Archelaus'' (play) by Euripides

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