Cleisthenes

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Cleisthenes was a prominent Athenian during the Peloponnesian War (431 BC). The comedeian Aristophanes uses him frequently as the butt of jokes and...

Charmides

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Charmides was an Athenian statesman and one of the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens following its defeat in the Peloponnesian War. Uncle of Plato,...

Pausanias

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Pausanias, an Athenian of the deme Kerameis, was the lover of the poet Agathon. He appears in the Socratic dialogues of both Plato ("Symposium", p....

Theaetetus

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Theaetetus (ca. 417 B.C. - 369 B.C.) of Athens, son of Euphronius, of the Athenian deme Sunium, was a classical Greek mathematician. His principal...
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...
Thrasybulus

Thrasybulus

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Thrasybulus was an Athenian general and democratic leader. In 411 BC, in the wake of an oligarchic coup at Athens, the pro-democracy sailors at...

Eurymedon

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Eurymedon (d. 414 BC), was one of the Athenian generals (Strategos) during the Peloponnesian War. In 428 BC he was sent by the Athenians to...
Theramenes

Theramenes

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Theramenes (d. 404 BC, Greek:) was an Athenian statesman, prominent in the final decade of the Peloponnesian War. He was particularly active during...
Hermocrates

Hermocrates

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Hermocrates (Ancient Greek:) was a general of Syracuse during the Athenians' Sicilian Expedition. The first historical reference to Hermocrates is...

Phormio

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Phormio, the son of Asopius, was an Athenian general and admiral before and during the Peloponnesian War. A talented naval commander, Phormio...