Biography Category
(kl ´ n) (KEY) , d. 422 B.C., Athenian political leader. The son of a tanner, he had little education; nevertheless, he was a gifted speaker. He bega...
(kl är´k s) (KEY) , d. 401 B.C., Spartan officer, celebrated as the leader of the Ten Thousand. Sent in 410 to govern Byzantium, he made himself unp...
(k ´l n) (KEY) , 6th cent. B.C., one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He was a Spartan and brought greater strictness to Spartan training. As an epho...
(kl m´ n z) (KEY) , d. c.489 B.C., king of Sparta after 518 B.C. In accordance with Sparta’s policy of helping oligarchies in other states at the ...
(k s n´d r) (KEY) , 358–297 B.C., king of Macedon, one of the chief figures in the wars of the Diadochi. The son of Antipater, he was an officer un...
(k l s´tr t s) (KEY) , d. c.360 B.C., Athenian statesman and orator. Believing Thebes to be more dangerous to Athens than Sparta, he favored a peace ...