Epicles

{{short description|Set of ancient Greek figures}}

Epicles (Epiklês) ({{langx|grc|Ἐπικλῆς}}) was the name of several prominent Ancient Greeks:

• Epicles, an Ancient Greek medical writer who lived after Bacchius, and therefore probably in the 2nd or 1st century BC. Epicles is quoted by Erotianus,Erotianus, Gloss. Hippocr. p. 16 (cited by Greenhill) who wrote a commentary on the obsolete words found in the writings of Hippocrates, which he arranged in alphabetical order.
• Epicles of Troy, a Lycian or Trojan prince killed by Ajax.Homer, Iliad12, v, 378.John Lemprière, [https://books.google.com/books?id=b0UQAAAAYAAJ&dq=Epicleas+of+Sparta&pg=RA1-PT232 Bibliotheca Classica: A Classical Dictionary](A. Strahan, 1801).
• Epicles of Hermione, a musician who played the lyre, mentioned by Plutarch.John Langhorne, William Langhorne, Plutarch's Lives, (Google eBook) Plutarch, (Thomas & Andrews, Boston, 1804) [https://books.google.com/books?id=RBBAAQAAMAAJ&dq=Epicleas+of+Sparta&pg=PA270 page 270].
• Epicles, the eponymous archon of Athens of 131–130 BC
• Epicles, the father of Proteas, an Athenian admiral in the Peloponnesian War, mentioned by Thucydides.Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II: 6.
• Epicles of Thespiae, mentioned on a dedication at Delphi.[http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/Images2/cciv243.athenaeus3.html The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis Book XIII Concerning Women (Page III)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706101416/http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/Images2/cciv243.athenaeus3.html |date=2014-07-06 }}.
• Epicleas, a Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War.Martin Hammond, The Peloponnesian War (Google eBook) (Oxford University Press, 2009) VIII 108.