1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Callinus – Clio

Callinus

The earliest Greek elegiac poet, probably flourished about B. c. 700. 1

Calliope

One of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, who presided over eloquence and heroic poetry.

Calpurnia

Daughter of L. Calpurnius Piso, consul B. c. 58, and last wife of the dictator Caesar, to whom she was married in 59.

Cambuni Montes

The mountains which separate Macedonia and Thessaly.

Capitolinum

A celebrated temple and citadel at Rome on the Tarpeian rock.

Celsus

A physician in the age of Tiberius, who wrote eight books on medicine, besides treatises on agriculture, rhetoric, and military affairs.

Centauri

A people of Thessaly, half men and half horses. They were the offspring of Centaurus and Stilbia.

Cepheus

King of Aethiopia, son of Belus, husband of Cassiopea, and father of Andromeda, was placed among the stars after his death.

Chalcidice

A peninsula in Macedonia, between the Thermaic and Strymonic gulfs.

Cimbri

A Celtic people, probably of the same race as the Cymry.

Cinna

L. Cornelius Cinna, the famous leader of the popular party during the absence of Sulla in the East.

Clio

The first of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over history.

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