Leosthenes

Leosthenes in Wikipedia

Leosthenes (in Greek Λεωσθένης; died 323 BC) was an Athenian, commander of the combined Greek army in the Lamian war. We know not by what means he had obtained the high reputation which we find him enjoying when he first makes his appearance in history: it has been generally inferred, from a passage in Strabo[1], that he had first served under Alex...

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Leosthĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Λεωσθένης). An Athenian commander of the combined Greek army in the Lamian War, slain by a stone while besieging Antipater in the town of Lamia, B.C. 322. His funeral discourse was pronounced by Hyperides....

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