Plutarch

Plutarch

male, deceased (127)
Roman era historian, oeuvre, ancient greek, Biographer, Essayist, historian…Boeotia
Mestrius Plutarchus, better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a...

Cadmus

male
trojan war, Thebes, Greek mythological, Histories, Boeotia, Theban King
Cadmus, or Kadmos, in Greek mythology, was the son of the king of Phoenicia (Currently Lebanon)and brother of Europa. His father is either Agenor,...
Philopoemen

Philopoemen

male
Boeotia, Achaean, Peloponnesus, macedon, strategos, peloponnesian
Philopoemen, (b. 253 BC, Megalopolis - d. 183 BC, Messene) was a skilled Greek general, who was Achaean Strategos in eight occasions. As Achaean...
Pindar

Pindar

male
Argos, Boeotia, poet, Pederastic poetry, ancient greek, ancient greece
Pindar (or Pindarus) (probably born 522 BC in Cynoscephalae, a village in Boeotia; died 443 BC in Argos), was perhaps the greatest of the nine...

Acusilaus

male
historian, ancient greek, peloponnesian, greek, Argos, logographer…Boeotia
Acusilaus or Akousilaos of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer and mythographer who flourished around 500 BC but whose work...
Attalus I

Attalus I

male
aegean sea, Macedonian Wars, The Dying Gaul, Boeotia, Galatia, Aegean
Attalus I "Soter" ruled Pergamon, a Greek polis in what is now Turkey, from 241 BC to 197 BC. He was the second cousin and the adoptive son of...

Euphemus

male
libya, Laconia, Taenarum, Phocis, Battus, Panopeus…Boeotia
There are two figures in Greek mythology known as Euphemus. One was the son of Poseidon, granted by his father the power to walk on water....

Hipponicus

male
Callias II, Callias, Boeotia, athenian, Battle of Delium, Callias III
Hipponicus was an Athenian military commander and son of Callias II and father of Callias III. Together with Eurymedon he commanded the Athenian...

Leosthenes

male
Ancient Athenian, ancient greek, athenian, macedon, satrap, greek…Boeotia
Leosthenes was an Athenian, commander of the combined Greek army in the Lamian war. We know not by what means he had obtained the high reputation...

Taxiles

male
ancient greek, roman, macedonia, sulla, General, thrace…Boeotia
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...