1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Dacia – Dryas

Dacia

A Roman province, lay between the Danube and the Carpathian Mountains, and comprehended the modern Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldavia, and part of Hungary.

Dactyli

Fabulous beings, to whom the discovery of iron, and the art of working it by means of fire, was ascribed.

Demeter

See Ceres.

Dictator

A magistrate at Rome, invested with regal authority.

Diodotus

A Stoic philosopher, and a teacher of Cicero, in whose house he died, B. c. 59.

Dionysus

See Bacchus.

Dis

Contracted from Dives, a name sometimes given to Pluto, and hence also to the lower world.

Dryas

Father of the Thracian king Lycurgus, who is hence called Dryantides.

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