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Syracusae
(4,720 words)
(Συράκουσαι/
Syrákousai, Lat.
Syracusae). Syracuse, town on Sicily's southeast coast, modern Siracusa. [German version] I. Topography Colony of Corinth (Colonization), founded in 734/3 BC. The place name is said to have derived from the swamp area of Lysimeleia, also called Συράκω/
Syrákō (cf. Scymn. 280-282), which existed until the 20th cent. and was located west of the slim promontory, which, together with the island Ortygia facing it, constituted the original bridgehead settlement (inhabited from the early Paleolithic). The factor …
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Xenarchus
(885 words)
(Ξέναρχος;
Xénarchos). [German version] [1] Comedy writer, 4th cent. BC Comedy writer of the (probably late) 4th cent. BC. Eight play titles (quite typical of this period) and 14 fragments have been preserved (exclusively in Athenaeus [3]). In fragment 1, a speaker (perhaps a slave, also the eponym character,
Butalíōn) laments in exuberant dithyrambistic language, that there is no means of curing his master's impotence [2. 263]; in fragment 4 (Πένταθλος/
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Alexander
(7,586 words)
(Ἀλέξαδρος;
Aléxandros). Famous personalities: Alexander the Great [4] (III.); the Philosopher Alexander [26] of Aphrodisias. I. Myth [German version] [1] see Paris see Paris. Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA) II. Associated Hellenistic ruling families [German version] [2] A. I. Macedonian king, 1st half of t…
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Nicon
(255 words)
(Νίκων;
Níkōn). [German version] [1] Theban military leader, 413 BC 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). Beck, Hans (Cologne) …
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Callicrates
(1,202 words)
(Καλλικράτης;
Kallikrátēs). [German version] [1] Athenian demagogue and politician Athenian demagogue and politician in the succession of Cleophon, he abolished the
diobelía with the promise of increasing it by an
obolós; later sentenced to death (Aristot. Ath. Pol. 28,3). Schmitz, Winfried (Bielefeld) Bibliography Rhodes, 356-357. [German version] [2] Sculptor in Laconia Sculptor in Laconia. Together with Myrmecides, C. was considered the legendary, probably archaic creator of microscopic sculptures made of iron, bronze, ivory and marble. Ants whose legs were too small to be seen and a wagon drawn by flies are mentioned. Neudecker, Richard (Rome) Bibliography Overbeck, no. 293; 2168; 2192-2197 Fuchs/Floren, 215. [German version] [3] Greek architect and builder (?) of the 5th cent. BC Greek architect and builder (?) of the 5th cent. BC. Written sources, extant building inscriptions and attributions yield a profile that identifies C. as one of the most active builders of his age. He participated as much in the construction of the ‘Long Walls’ of Athens (Plut. Pericles 13.5) as he did in the repair work on the Athenian Acropolis (IG I2 44). Together with Ictinus he was named as builder of the Parthenon (Plut. Pericles 13.4). It is disputed if he merely …
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Xenophon
(5,032 words)
(Ξενοφῶν;
Xenophôn). [German version] [1] Of Athens, strategos, 5th cent. BC Athenian. Initially commander of the cavalry (
hippárchēs; IG I3 511); then participat…
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Neon
(631 words)
(Νέων;
Néōn). [German version] [1] Military official under Chirisophus Lacedaemonian from the perioeci town of Asine [3], subordinate commander (ὑποστράτηγος/
hypostrátēgos) of Chirisophus [1] in the campaign of the younger Cyrus [3] against Artaxerxes [2]. After Chirisiphorus' death, N. commanded the Lacedaemonian contingent. After Xenophon had relinquished command at Byzantium, N. hoped for supreme command, and opposed the decision to place the mercenary army in the service of the Odrysian King Seuthes (Xen. An. 6,4,23f.; 7,2,1-2; 7,3,7; [1. 350]). Schmitz, Winfried (Bi…
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Lattabus
(59 words)
[German version] (Λάτταβος;
Láttabos). Aetolian who jointly with Nicostratus (and Dorimachus) attacked the Boeotians in 220 BC at their confederate festival (Pol. 9,34,11; cf. 4,3,5), probably identical with the epigraphically attested Naupactian (?) L., son of Strombichus and brother of a Nicostratus; not identical with the
stratēgós Lattamus, son of Bucatieus (s. Syll.3 539,1). …
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Amynander
(149 words)
[German version] (Ἀμύνανδρος;
Amýnandros, also Ἀμυνᾶς;
Amynâs). King of Athamania since 220(?) or
c. 205 BC (Pol. 4,16,9; Syll.3 565; Welles 35; Moretti II 94), usually allied with the Aetolians, he received Zacynthus (Liv. 36,31,11-12) [1. 405] from Philip V for his neutrality in 207/6; in the second Macedonian War on the Roman side (Pol. 16,27,4; 18,1,3; 36,3; 47,13;) [1. 420-425; 2. 1-8]; in 198/8 Flamininus sent him as envoy to Rome (18,10,7) [3. 253 f.]. In 192/1 allied with Antiochus, as he hoped to see…
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Volux
(68 words)
[German version] Son of the Moorish king Bocchus [1]. In 106 BC in the Romans' war with his brother-in-law Iugurtha, he took L.Cornelius [I 90] Sulla to Bocchus, who thereby indicated his change of sides. The dramatic description of this risky mission in Sallustius [II 3] (Sall. Iug. 101,5; 105-107), which shows V. as an unreliable cowardly 'barbarian', can probably be traced to Sulla's memoirs. Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich)
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Pleuratus
(299 words)
(Πλευράτος/
Pleurátos). [German version] [1] Illyrian king c. 200 BC Illyrian king, son of Scerdilaedas and from 212 (?) BC his co-regent [1. 256]; nephew of Agron [3]. He ensured his autocracy over the southern Illyrian tribes from 206 onwards by means of an alliance with Rome in the first (Pol. 10,41,4; Liv. 26,24,9; 27,30,13; 28,5,7; 29,12,14) [2. 298-302] and the second of the Macedonian Wars (Pol. 21,11,7; 21,21,3; Liv. 31,28,1f) [2. 302-306], for which in 196 he received the cities of Lychnis (moder…
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