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Livius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Andronīcus. An early writer who is regarded as the founder of Roman epic and dramatic poetry. He was by birth a Greek of Southern Italy, and was brought as a slave to Rome, after the conquest of Tarentum in B.C. 272, while still a young man. His master, a Livius (perhaps Livius Salinator), whose name he bears, gave him his liberty, and he became an...

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Lycŏphron in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λυκόφρων). A grammarian and poet who was a native of Chalcis in Euboea, and lived at Alexandria under Ptolemy Philadelphus (B.C. 285-247). He was the author of an extant poem in 1474 iambic lines, entitled Cassandra or Alexandra, in which Cassandra is made to prophesy the fall of Troy, with numerous other events. The obscurity of this work is prov...

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Lamăchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λάμαχος). An Athenian, the colleague of Alcibiades and Nicias in the great Sicilian Expedition, B.C. 415. He fell under the walls of Syracuse, in a sally of the besieged. In Aristophanes he is represented as a brave but blustering soldier (Acharn. 565, etc.)....

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Leonnatus in Wikipedia

Leonnatus (Greek: Λεοννάτος; 356 BC - 322 BC), Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great and one of the diadochi. He was a member of the royal house of Lyncestis, a small kingdom that had been included in Macedonia by King Philip II of Macedon. Leonnatus was the same age as Alexander and was very close to him. Later, he was one of Alexander's seve...

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Lobón in Wikipedia

Lobón is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2002 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 2,666 inhabitants....

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Lesches in Wikipedia

Lesches[1] is a semi-legendary early Greek poet and the reputed author of the Little Iliad. According to the usually accepted tradition, he was a native of Pyrrha in Lesbos, and flourished about 660 BC (others place him about 50 years earlier). He may have spent part of his career at Mytilene, for Proclus[2] refers to him as "Lesches of Mytilene". ...

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Lycortas in Wikipedia

Lycortas of Megalopolis was a politician of the Achaean League active in the first half of the 2nd century BC. He is now primarily known as the father of the historian Polybius. A political ally of Philopoemen, he shared the latter's view that the Romans should be dealt with according to the strict letter of their treaty with the League, and that n...

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Iăsus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ἴασος). The father of Atalanta (q.v.)....

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Iphicrates in Wikipedia

Iphicrates (d. c. 353 BC, Greek: Ιφικράτης) was an Athenian general, the son of a shoemaker, who flourished in the earlier half of the 4th century BC. He owes his fame as much to the improvements he made in the equipment of the peltasts or light-armed mercenaries (named for their small pelte shield) as to his military successes. Historians have de...

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Jason of Pherae in Wikipedia

Jason of Pherae (Ancient Greek: Ιάσων των Φερών), was the ruler of Thessaly during the period just before Philip II of Macedon came to power. He had succeeded his father Lycophron I of Pherae as tyrant of Pherae and was appointed tagus, or king, of Thessaly in the 370s BC and soon extended his control to much of the surrounding region. Controlling ...

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