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Pelopidas in Wikipedia

Pelopidas (d. 364 BC) was an important Theban statesman and general in Greece. Biography Athlete and warrior He was a member of a distinguished family, and possessed great wealth which he expended on his friends, while content to lead the life of an athlete. In 384 he served in a Theban contingent sent to the support of the Spartans at Mantineia,...

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Parmenides in Wikipedia

Parmenides of Elea (Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. early 5th century BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides describes ...

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Pausanias of Macedon in Wikipedia

Pausanias of Macedon (Greek: Παυσανίας ὁ Μακεδών), the son and successor of Aeropus II. He was assassinated in the year of his accession by Amyntas III....

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Pericles in Wikipedia

Pericles (Greek: Περικλῆς, Periklēs, "Surrounded by Glory"; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age-specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. ...

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Pausanias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

King of Macedonia, the son and successor of Aeropus. He was assassinated in the year of his accession by Amyntas II., 394....

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Periander in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Son of Cypselus, whom he succeeded as tyrant of Corinth in B.C. 625, and reigned forty years, to B.C. 585. His rule was mild and beneficent at first, but afterwards became oppressive. According to the common story, this change was owing to the advice of Thrasybulus, tyrant of Miletus, whom Periander had consulted on the best mode of maintaining his...

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Phaedon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Φαίδων). A Greek philosopher, was a native of Elis, and of high birth, but was taken prisoner, probably about B.C. 400, and was brought to Athens. It is said that he ran away from his master to Socrates, and was ransomed by one of the friends of the latter. Phaedon was present at the death of Socrates, while he was still quite a youth. He appears ...

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Pelopĭdas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Πελοπίδας). A Theban general and statesman, son of Hippoclus. He was descended from a noble family, and inherited a large estate, of which he made a liberal use. He lived always in the closest friendship with Epaminondas, to whose simple frugality, as he could not persuade him to share his riches, he is said to have conformed his own mode of life....

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Phalaris in Wikipedia

Phalaris (Greek: Φάλαρις) was the tyrant of Acragas (Agrigentum) in Sicily, from approximately 570 to 554 BC. History He was entrusted with the building of the temple of Zeus Atabyrius in the citadel, and took advantage of his position to make himself despot [1]. Under his rule Agrigentum seems to have attained considerable prosperity. He supplied...

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Parmenĭdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Παρμενίδης). A Greek philosopher and poet, born of an illustrious family about B.C. 510, at Elea in Lower Italy. He was held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens on account of his excellent legislation, to which they ascribed the prosperity and wealth of the town; and also on account of his exemplary life. A "Parmenidean life" was proverbial amon...

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