Biography Category
d. c.370 B.C., Athenian leader, one of the generals of the Peloponnesian War. In his old age Callias was one of the ambassadors sent to Sparta with Ca...
d. 213 B.C., Greek statesman and general of Sicyon, prime mover and principal leader of the Second Achaean League. His objective at first was to free ...
(f r´ ) (KEY) , d. 358 B.C., tyrant of the city of Pherae in Thessaly after 369 B.C. He was opposed by other Thessalian cities and by the Thebans. Pe...
(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...