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Margus
(305 words)

(Μάργος; Márgos).

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[1] Strategos 255 BC

M. from Carynea, probably serving as nauarch of the Achaean fleet contingent during the Illyrian War, was killed in 229 BC near Paxos ‘after faithfully serving the koinon of the Achaeans ’(Pol. 2,10). During the reformation of the league, he killed the tyrant of Bura in 275, thus forcing Iseas, the tyrant of Carynea, to resign and to have his town join the league (Pol. 2,41). Before Aratus [2] he played a promi…

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Cobet, Justus (Essen), Ameling, Walter (Jena) and Burian, Jan (Prague), “Margus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 31 May 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e723450>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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