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Agesilaus II in Wikipedia

Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II (Greek Ἀγησίλαος) (444 BC – 360 BC) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, "as good as thought commander and king of all Greece," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his country's deeds and fortu...

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Aesop in Wikipedia

Aesop or Esop (pronounced /ˈiːsəp/ EE-səp or /ˈiːˌsɒp/ EE-SOP;[1] Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aisōpos; c. 620–564 BC), known for the genre of fables ascribed to him (see Aesop's Fables), was by tradition born a slave (δοῦλος) and was a contemporary of Croesus and Solon in the mid-sixth century BC in ancient Greece. Aesop the Fabulist. Though Aesop became famou...

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Chabrias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Χαβρίας). A celebrated Athenian general. In B.C. 378, he was one of the commanders of the forces sent to the aid of Thebes against Agesilaüs, when he adopted for the first time that manœuvre for which he became so celebrated- ordering his men to await the attack with their spears pointed against the enemy and their shields resting on one knee. A s...

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Adrianus in Wikipedia

Adrianus of Tyre (Ancient Greek: Αδριανός, c. 113 – 193), also written as Hadrian and Hadrianos, was a sophist of ancient Athens who flourished under the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.[1] He was the pupil of the celebrated Herodes Atticus, and obtained the chair of philosophy at Athens during the lifetime of his master. His advancement doe...

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Chaeremon in Wikipedia

Chaeremon was an Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BCE. He was generally considered a tragic poet like Choerilus. Aristotle (Rhetoric, iil. 12) said his works were intended for reading, not for representation. According to Suidas, Chaeremon was also a comic poet, and the title of at least one of his plays (Achilles Slayer o...

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Aedesius in Wikipedia

Aedesius (Greek Αιδέσιος, died 355) was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic born of a noble Cappadocian family. Career He migrated to Syria, attracted by the lectures of Iamblichus, of whom he became a follower. According to Eunapius, he differed from Iamblichus on certain points connected with theurgy and magic. After the death of his master th...

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Acacius of Caesarea in Wikipedia

Acacius of Caesarea in Greek Ἀκάκιος Mονόφθαλμος (died 366) was a Christian bishop, the pupil and successor in the Palestinian see of Caesarea of Eusebius AD 340, whose life he wrote.[1] He is remembered chiefly for his bitter opposition to St. Cyril of Jerusalem and for the part he was afterwards enabled to play in the more acute stages of the Ari...

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Acestorides in Wikipedia

Acestorides (Greek Ακεστορίδης) is the name of several people from Classical history: * Acestorides of Corinth (fl. 4th century BC) was a native of Corinth was made supreme commander by the citizens of the Sicilian polis of Syracuse in 320 BC and was able to banish the tyrant Agathocles from the city. [1][2] Acestorides then left Syracuse in 319 ...

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Chabrias in Wikipedia

Chabrias (Greek: Χαβρίας) was a celebrated Athenian general of the 4th century BC. In 388 BC he defeated the Spartans and Aeginetans under Gorgopas at Aegina and commanded the fleet sent to assist Evagoras, king of Cyprus, against the Persians. In 378, when Athens entered into an alliance with Thebes against Sparta, he defeated Agesilaus II near Th...

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Aeimnestus in Wikipedia

* Aeimnestus (Gr. Ἀείμνηστος) was the Spartan soldier who killed the Persian general Mardonius by hurling a boulder onto Mardonius' head during the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, as told in book 9 of the Histories of Herodotus[1]. Plutarch calls the same man "Arimnestus" (Ἀρίμνηστος).[2] * Another Spartan by the same name had led three hundred men ...

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