Theban leader of 300 Boeotian hoplites who, together with some Spartan units, crossed over to Sicily in 413 BC in order to defend Syracuse (Thuc. 7,19,3).
Comedy writer of the 4th or 3rd cent. BC; there is a preserved fragment of a play Kitharōdós, in w…
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Beck, Hans (Cologne),
Bäbler, Balbina (Göttingen),
Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich) and
Folkerts, Menso (Munich),
“Nicon”, 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.
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