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Eurybătus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐρύβατος). An Ephesian, whom Croesus sent with a large sum of money to the Peloponnesus to hire mercenaries for him in his war with Cyrus. He, however, deserted to Cyrus, and betrayed the whole matter to him. In consequence of this treachery his name passed into a proverb among the Greeks (in Ctes. 43)....

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Eurymĕdon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐρυμέδων). Son of Thucles, an Athenian general in the Peloponnesian War (Thuc.iii. 80, 81, 85)....

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Eumĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

II., king of Pergamum, who reigned B.C. 197-159, and was the son and successor of Attalus I. He inherited from his predecessor the friendship and alliance of the Romans, which he took the utmost pains to cultivate. Pergamum became under his rule a great and flourishing city, in which he founded that celebrated library that rose to be a rival even t...

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Eunapius in Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Εὐνάπιος). A Greek rhetorician, born at Sardis in A.D. 347. In 405 he wrote biographies of twenty-three older and contemporary philosophers and sophists. In spite of its bad style and its superficiality, this book is our chief authority for the history of the Neo-Platonism of that age. There is an edition by Boissonade (Amst. 1822). We have also s...

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Euphrānor in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὐφράνωρ). A distinguished statuary and painter. He was a native of Corinth, but practised his art at Athens about B.C. 336 (Quint.xii. 10.6; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 8). Of one of his works, a beautiful sitting Paris, we have probably a copy in the Museo Pio-Clementino. His best paintings were preserved in a porch in the Ceramicus....

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Eurybiades in Wikipedia

Eurybiades (Greek: Εὐριβιάδης) was the Spartan commander in charge of the Greek navy during the Persian Wars. He was the son of Eurycleides, and was chosen as commander in 480 BC because the other Greek city-states, worried about the growing power of Athens, did not want to serve under an Athenian,[citation needed] despite the Athenians' superior ...

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Eurypon in Wikipedia

Eurypon, otherwise called Eurytion (Ευρυπών, Ευρυτίων), grandson of Procles, was the third king of that house at Sparta, and thenceforward gave it the name of Eurypontidae. Plutarch talks of his having relaxed the kingly power, and played the demagogue; and Polyaenus relates a war with the Arcadians of Mantineia under his command.[1][2][3]...

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Eunomus in Wikipedia

Eunomus may refer to several different things: Biology * a bird, the Dusky Thrush (Turdus eunomus) Geography * the ancient city also called Euromus History * Eunomus, an Athenian Admiral during the Corinthian War....

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Euphronios in Wikipedia

Euphronios (circa 535 - after 470 BC) was an ancient Greek vase painter and potter, active in Athens in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC. As part of the so-called "Pioneer Group," ( a modern name given to a group of vase painters who influenced the change in vase painting for the better). Euphronios was one of the most important artists of t...

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Eumenes in Wikipedia

Eumenes of Cardia (Ancient Greek: Εὐμένης, ca. 362 BC-316 BC) was a Greek general and scholar. He participated in the wars of the Diadochi as a supporter of the Macedonian Argead royal house. He was a native of Cardia in the Thracian Chersonese. At a very early age he was employed as private secretary by Philip II of Macedon, and, after the death ...

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