Hegesias
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Hegesias may refer to:
- Hegesias of CyreneHegesias of CyreneHegesias of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that happiness is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life was the avoidance of pain and sorrow. Conventional values such as wealth, poverty, freedom, and slavery are all indifferent and produce no more pleasure than pain...
, Cyrenaic philosopher, c. 300 BC - Hegesias of MagnesiaHegesias of MagnesiaHegesias of Magnesia , Greek rhetorician, and historian, flourished about 300 BC. Strabo , speaks of him as the founder of the florid Asiatic style of composition....
, Greek rhetorician and historian, c. 300 BC - Hegesias or Hegesinus of Salamis, sometimes said to be the author of the lost epic Cypria
- Hegesias or Hegias of AthensHegias of AthensHegias or Hegesias of Athens was a famous sculptor of Athens, a member of the Late Archaic school of the generation before Pheidias. No surviving work can be securely identified as his, though Pliny mentions a Pyrrhus Supported by Pallas Athena....
, sculptor or possibly two sculptors of the generation before Phidias - HegiasHegiasHegias was a Neoplatonist philosopher who lived in the 5th and 6th centuries. He may have been the great-grandson or great-great-grandson of Plutarch of Athens, the founder of the Neoplatonist Academy in Athens. Hegias studied under Proclus at the school in Athens, when Proclus was an old man c. 480...
, Neoplatonist philosopher, c. 500 AD