Aeschylus

Aeschylus

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Aeschylus, IPA: or, 525 BC/524 BC - 456 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is...
Mardonius

Mardonius

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Mardonius (d. 479 BC) was a Persian commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the 5th century BC. He was the son of Gobryas and the...
Pericles

Pericles

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Pericles or Perikles was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens in the city's Golden Age (specifically, between the...
Themistocles

Themistocles

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Themistocles (Greek: "'"'; c. 524-459 BC) was a leader in the Athenian democracy during the Persian Wars. He favored the expansion of the navy to...

Pheidippides

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Pheidippides (sometimes given as "Phidippides" or "Philippides"), hero of Ancient Greece, is the central figure in a story which was the...

Euphronios

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Euphronios was a Greek painter and potter of red-figure vases, active in Athens between 520 and 470 BC, the time of the Persian Wars. Very little...

Datis

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Datis or Datus was a Median admiral who served for the Persian Empire, under Darius the Great. He is most notable for his joint-partcipation with...

Leotychidas

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Leotychidas [Leotychides, Latychidas] (c. 545 BC-469 BC) was a ruler of Sparta from 491 BC-476 BC. He led Spartan forces during the Persian Wars...

Timocreon

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Timocreon, of Ialysus in Rhodes, was a Greek lyric poet who flourished about 480 BC. During the Persian wars he had been banished on suspicion of...
Alexander I of Macedon I of Macedon

Alexander I of Macedon I of Macedon

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Alexander I was ruler of Macedon from 498 BC to 454 BC. He was the son of Amyntas I of Macedon. According to Herodotus he was unfriendly to Persia,...