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Nicias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

An Athenian general who was a man of birth and fortune; but one in whom a generous temper, popular manners, and considerable political and military talent were marred by unreasonable diffidence and an excessive dread of responsibility. Nicias, however, signalized himself on several occasions. He took the island of Cythera from the Lacedaemonians, s...

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Nicomedes I of Bithynia in Wikipedia

Nicomedes I (Greek: Nικoμήδης; 278–c. 255 BC), second king of Bithynia, was the eldest son of Zipoites, whom he succeeded on the throne in 278 BC.[1] Overview He commenced his reign by putting to death two of his brothers but the third, subsequently called Zipoites II, raised an insurrection against him and succeeded in maintaining himself, for so...

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Olympiodorus of Thebes in Wikipedia

Olympiodorus (born ca 380, active ca 412-25) was an historical writer of classical education, a "poet by profession" as he says of himself, who was born at Thebes in Egypt, and was sent on a mission to the Huns on the Black Sea by Emperor Honorius about 412, and later lived at the court of Theodosius II, to whom his History was dedicated. The recor...

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Pamphĭlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Pamphilus of Amphipolis (Ancient Greek: Πάμφιλος, 4th century BC) was a Macedonian[1] distinguished painter and head of Sicyonian school. He was the disciple of Eupompus, the founder of the Sicyonian school of painting , for the establishment of which, however, Pamphilus seems to have done much more than even Eupompus himself. Of his own works we h...

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King Nicias in Wikipedia

Nicias was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the Paropamisade. Most of his relatively few coins have been found in northern Pakistan, indicating that he ruled a smaller principate around the lower Kabul valley. He was possibly a relative of Menander I. Time of reign Bopearachchi suggests that Nikias ruled ca 90-85 BCE. This late date is supported by...

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Nicomēdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Nicomēdes I., king of Bithynia, was the eldest son of Zipoetes, whom he succeeded, B.C. 278. With the aid of the Gauls, whom he invited into Asia, he defeated and put to death his brother Zipoetes, who had for some time held the independent sovereignty of a considerable part of Bithynia. The rest of his reign appears to have been undisturbed, and u...

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Nearchus in Wikipedia

Nearchus (Greek: Νέαρχος, Nearchos; c. 360 - 300 BC) was one of the officers, a navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. His celebrated voyage from India to Susa after Alexander's expedition in India is preserved in Arrian's account, the Indica. A native of Lato[1] in Crete, his family settled at Amphipolis in Macedonia at some point during Ph...

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Onomacritus in Wikipedia

Onomacritus (c. 530 - 480 BCE), also known as Onomacritos or Onomakritos, was a Greek chresmologue, or compiler of oracles, who lived at the court of the tyrant Pisistratus in Athens. He is said to have prepared an edition of the Homeric poems, and was an industrious collector, as well as a forger of old oracles and poems. According to Herodotus H...

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Nearchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Νέαρχος). A Greek writer of Crete, resident afterwards at Amphipolis. He was a friend of Alexander the Great in his youth, and, participating in his youthful intrigues, was banished by Philip. Later he administered the satrapy of Lycia for five years after the battle of the Granicus (B.C. 334). He then took part in the Indian expedition (B.C. 327)...

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Nicocreon in Wikipedia

Nicocreon (Greek Nικoκρέων; lived 4th century BC) was king of Salamis in Cyprus, at the time of Alexander the Great's (336–323 BC) expedition against Persia. He submitted to the conqueror in common with the other princes of Cyprus, without opposition; and in 331 BC, after the return of Alexander from Egypt, repaired to Tyre (Lebanon) to pay homage ...

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