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(t m ´l n) (KEY) , d. after 337 B.C., Greek statesman and general, noted as the scourge of tyrants. A Corinthian, he went (344) with a small army to...
382–336 B.C., king of Macedon (359–336 B.C.), son of Amyntas II. While a hostage in Thebes (367–364), he gained much knowledge of Greece and its...
(s ´l n) (KEY) , c.639–c.559 B.C., Athenian statesman, lawgiver, and reformer. He was also a poet, and some of his patriotic verse in the Ionic dia...
(Alexius Comnenus) ( l k´s s, k mn ´n s) (KEY) , 1048–1118, Byzantine emperor (1081–1118). Under the successors of his uncle, Isaac I, the empi...
d. 507, Visigothic king of Spain and of S Gaul (c.484–507), son and successor of Euric. He issued (506) at Toulouse the Breviary of Alaric for his R...
(p r´ kl z) (KEY) , c.495–429 B.C., Athenian statesman. He was a member of the Alcmaeonidae family through his mother, a niece of Cleisthenes. He f...