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1900–1975, American anthropologist, b. Salida, Colo., grad. Columbia, 1923, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1927. He taught at the Univ. of Buffalo and was ...
(y ´m n z) (KEY) , c.361–316 B.C., secretary to Philip II of Macedon and to Alexander the Great. A Thracian Greek, he was capable, diplomatic, and ...
(h pär´k s) (KEY) , c.555–514 B.C., Athenian political figure, son of Pisistratus. After the death of his father, he was closely associated with h...
(l kûr´g s) (KEY) , traditional name of the founder of the Spartan constitution. The earliest mention of him is in Herodotus. Nothing is known of hi...
d. 316 B.C., wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great. She did not get on well with Philip, who had other wives, but the story t...
( p m n n´d s) (KEY) , d. 362 B.C., Greek general of Thebes. He was a pupil of Lysias the Pythagorean, but his early life is otherwise obscure. As th...