Sosthenes of Macedon

Sosthĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

(Σωσθένης). A Macedonian soldier who defeated the Gauls at the time of their invasion of Greece in B.C. 280 (Just. xxiv. 5, 6). See Gallia....

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Sosthenes of Macedon in Wikipedia

Sosthenes (Greek Σωσθένης d. 277 BC) was a Macedonian and general and may have been a king of the Antipatrid dynasty. During the reign of Lysimachus he was his governor in Asia Minor. Sosthenes was elected King by the Macedonian army, but he may or not have reigned as king.[1] Appointed as Strategos he may have declined the title of king as he had ...

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