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Demaratus
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(Δημάρατος; Dēmáratos).

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[1] Corinthian aristocrat 7th cent. BC

Corinthian aristocrat, member of the  Bacchiadae family. D. made his fortune as a merchant around the middle of the 7th cent. BC, mainly through trade with Etruria. When he had to leave Corinth during the rule of  Cypselus he settled in Tarquinii with his followers and married…

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Meier, Mischa (Bielefeld), Strothmann, Meret (Bochum), Kinzl, Konrad (Peterborough), Decker, Wolfgang (Cologne), Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA) and Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich), “Demaratus”, 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 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e313930>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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