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Olympiodorus
(850 words)

(Ὀλυμπιόδωρος; Olympiódōros).

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[1] Athenian politician (end of the 4th cent. BC)

Athenian, managed between 307 and 301 BC to induce Aetolia to enter into an alliance against Cassander and to relieve Elatea (Paus. 1,26,3; 10,18,7; 34,3). Although Demetrius [2] Poliorketes twice illegally appointed him (in 294/3 and 293/2) as eponymous árchōn (Dion. Hal. De Dinarcho 9; IG II2 378 = [1. D 70]; IG II2 389 and S…

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Dreyer, Boris (Göttingen), Beck, Hans (Cologne), Portmann, Werner (Berlin) and Brisson, Luc (Paris), “Olympiodorus”, 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 14 August 2022 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e830470>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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