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Pagondas in Wikipedia

Pagondas (Greek: Παγώνδας; son of Aeolidas, was a Theban general and statesman, who is best known for his command of the Boeotian forces at the Battle of Delium during the Peloponnesian War. His modification of the standard hoplite formation and his use of reserve cavalry in that battle constitute what most historians agree is the first recorded us...

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Nicomachus of Thebes in Wikipedia

Nicomachus of Thebes (fl. 4th century BC) was an ancient Greek painter, a native of Thebes, and a contemporary of the great painters of the Classical period; his father and son were also painters. Vitruvius observes that if his fame was less than his contemporaries, it was the fault of fortune rather than a lack of talent. Pliny gives a list of hi...

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Nicias in Wikipedia

Nicias or Nikias (Νικίας) (c.470 BC-413 BC) was an Athenian politician and general during the period of the Peloponnesian War. Nicias was a member of the Athenian aristocracy because he had inherited a large fortune from his father, which was invested into the silver mines around Attica's Mt. Laurium. Following the death of Pericles in 429 BC, he b...

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Nicomăchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek painter, probably of Thebes, about B.C. 360. He was celebrated as an artist who could paint with equal rapidity and excellence, and was regarded as rivalling the best painters of his day. A famous painting of his was "The Rape of Persephoné" (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 108)....

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Nabis in Wikipedia

Nabis (Ancient Greek: Νάβις) was ruler of Sparta from 207 BC to 192 BC, during the years of the First and Second Macedonian Wars and the War against Nabis. After taking the throne by executing two claimants, he began rebuilding Sparta's power. During the Second Macedonian War, he sided with King Philip V of Macedon and in return he received the cit...

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Nicarchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Νίκαρχος). A writer to whom are ascribed thirty-eight epigrams in the Greek Anthology. Of his personality nothing is known....

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Nicomedes IV of Bithynia in Wikipedia

Nicomedes IV Philopator, was the king of Bithynia, from c. 94 BC to 75/4 BC. He was the son and successor of Nicomedes III of Bithynia and Nysa [1] and had a sister called Nysa. [2] Biography There is nothing known about Nicomedes birth or the years before he became king. However, his reign began at the death of his father. The first few years of ...

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Pallădas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Παλλάδας). A writer of epigrams in the fifth century A.D. Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text. view as XML previous next show Browse Bar hide Search Searching in English. More search options Limi...

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Nabis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Νάβις). A person who succeeded in making himself tyrant of Lacedaemon on the death of Machanidas, B.C. 207. He carried his tyranny to the furthest possible extent. All persons possessed of property were subjected to incessant exactions, and the most cruel tortures if they did not succeed in satisfying his rapacity. One of his engines of torture re...

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Olympias in Wikipedia

Olympias (Greek: Ὀλυμπιάς, ca. 375–316 BC[1]) was a Greek princess of Epirus, daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great. She was a devout member of the orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, and may have slept with snakes.[2] Origin Olympias was the daught...

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