Brasidas

Brasidas

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Brasidas was a Spartan officer during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War. He was the son of Tellis and Argileonis, and won his first laurels...

Hagnon

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Hagnon was an Athenian general and statesman. In 437/6 BC, he led the settlers who founded the city of Amphipolis in Thrace; in the Peloponnesian...

Nearchus

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Nearchus (or Nearchos was one of the officers in the army of Alexander the Great. His celebrated voyage from India to Susa after Alexander's...

Zoilus

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Zoilus (c. 400 BC-320 BC) was a Greek grammarian, Cynic philosopher, and literary critic from Amphipolis in Macedon. According to Vitruvius (vii.,...

Taxiles

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Taxiles was a general in the service of Mithridates the Great, and one of those in whom he reposed the highest confidence. He is first mentioned in...

Charidemus

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Charidemus, of Oreus in Euboea, was a Greek mercenary leader of the 4th century BC. About 367 BC he fought under the Athenian general Iphicrates...
Mocius

Mocius

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Mocius (Mucius, died 288-295), also known as "the Holy Hieromartyr", was a priest in Amphipolis, Macedonia who became an Orthodox saint. Of Roman...

Histiaeus

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Histiaeus (died 494 BC), the son of Lysagoras, was the tyrant of Miletus in the late 6th century BC. Histiaeus owed his status as tyrant to Darius...

Gaius Norbanus Flaccus

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Gaius Norbanus Flaccus was a Roman politician and general. In 42 BC Norbanus and Decidius Saxa, were sent by the triumvirs with eight legions into...

Alexander II of Macedon II of Macedon

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Alexander II was king of Macedon from 370 - 368 BC, following the death of his father Amyntas II. He was the eldest of the three sons of Amyntas...