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Leonidas
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Xerxes I Of Persia
Xerxes I (c. 518 – August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC. He was the son of Darius the Great and Atos...
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Themistocles
Themistocles (/θəˈmɪstəˌkliːz/; Greek: Θεμιστοκλῆς Greek pronunciation: [tʰemistoklɛ̂ːs] Themistoklẽs; "Glory of the Law"; c. 524–459 BC) was an Athenian politician and general. He was one of a new breed of non-aristocratic politicians who rose to promine...
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Thales Of Miletus
A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer from Miletus in Asia Minor (present-day Milet in Turkey). He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regarded him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, ...
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Cyrus The Great
Cyrus II of Persia (commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Southwest Asi...
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Croesus
Croesus was the king of Lydia who, according to Herodotus, reigned for 14 years: from 560 BC until his defeat by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 546 BC.Croesus was renowned for his wealth; Herodotus and Pausanias noted that his gifts were preserved at...
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Aphrodite (greek Goddess)
Aphrodite (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη) is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus.According to Hesiods Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranuss genitals and threw them into the sea...
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Megabazus
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Leutychides
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Ister
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Maeandrius
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Histiaios
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Harpagos
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Kypselos
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Artaphrenes
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Massagetai
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Adrastos
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Kandaules
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Hermotimos
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Gorgos
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Kleombrotos
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Hekataios
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Mardonlos
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Bagaios
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Labda
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Kepheus
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Necos
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Apollo (greek God)
The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste ...
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Artabazos I Of Phrygia
Artabazos (fl. 480 BC - 455 BC) was a Persian general in the army of Xerxes I, and later satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia (now northwest Turkey) under the Achaemenid dynasty, founder of the Pharnacid dynasty of satraps. He was the son of Pharnaces, who was...
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Mardonius
Mardonius, (died 479 BC) was a leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC who died at the Battle of Plataea....
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Pausanias Of Sparta
Pausanias (died c. 470 BC) was a Spartan regent, general, and war leader for the Greeks who was suspected of conspiring with the Persian king, Xerxes I, during the Greco-Persian Wars. What is known of his life is largely according to Thucydides Hist...
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Solon (of Athens)
Solon (c. 638 – c. 558 BC) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often cr...
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Amasis Ii
Amasis II also called Ahmose II (reigned 570 BCE – 526 BCE) of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt, the successor of Apries at Sais. He was the last great ruler of Egypt before the Persian conquest.Most of our information about him is derived from Herodotus...
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Gyges Of Lydia
Gyges (7th century BC) was the founder of the Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings. The dates of his reign are uncertain but have been tentatively estimated as c.687–c.652 BC. He was a bodyguard of his predecessor Candaules whom he assassinated in order to sei...
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Candaules Of Lydia
Candaules (died c.687 BC) was a king of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia in the early years of the 7th century BC. According to Herodotus, he succeeded his father Meles as the 22nd and last king of Lydias Heraclid dynasty. He was assassinated and succee...
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Psamtik Iii
Psamtik III was the last Pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt from 526 BC to 525 BC. Most of what is known about his reign and life was documented by the Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BC. Herodotus states that Psamtik had ruled Egyp...
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Psamtik I
Psamtik I who ruled 664–610 BC, was the first of three kings of that name of the Saite, or Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt establishing the Saitic Dynasty, are recorded in Herodotuss Histories, Book II: 151–157. From cuneiform texts, it was discovered...
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Cambyses I
Cambyses I (c. 600 BC – 559 BC) was king of Anshan from c. 580 to 559 BC and the father of Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II), younger son of Cyrus I, and brother of Arukku. He should not be confused with his better-known grandson Cambyses II. According to Herodo...
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Tomyris (massagetean Queen)
Tomyris was a Massagetean ruler who reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian people from Scythian pastoral-nomadic confederation of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in parts of modern-day Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, western Uzbekistan, and southern Kaz...
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Artemisia I Of Caria
Artemisia I of Caria was a Greek queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and of the nearby islands of Kos, Nisyros and Kalymnos in about 480 BC. She fought as an ally of Xerxes I, King of Persia against the independent Greek city states dur...
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Eurybiades
Eurybiades was the son of Eurycleides, and was chosen as commander in 480 BC because the Peloponnesian city-states led by Sparta, worried about the growing power of Athens, did not want to serve under an Athenian despite the Athenians superior naval...
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Leotychidas
Leotychidas (also Leotychides, Latychidas c. 545 BC–c. 469 BC) was a ruler of Sparta in 491–476 BC. He led Spartan forces during the Persian Wars from 490 BC to 478 BC....
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Hydarnes Ii
Hydarnes II, son of Hydarnes, was a Persian commander of the Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC. His father was one of the seven conspirators against Gaumata.During the reign of Xerxes I, Hydarnes was one of the commanders for the Second Persian inva...
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Artyphius
Artyphius was a general of the Achaemenid Army during the Second Persian invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE). He was the son of Artabanus, grandson of Hystaspes, and therefore nephew of Darius the Great and first degree cousin of Xerxes I.According to Herodo...