Dionysius, the name of two rulers, father and son, of ancient Syracuse, a Greek city in Sicily. See more »

Pericles, (490-429 B.C.), an Athenian statesman. Pericles ruled Athens from 461 until his death in 429. See more »

Themistocles, (582-460 B.C.), an Athenian statesman. He was the leader most responsible for the Greek victory in the Persian Wars and for establishing Athens as a great power among the Greek city-states. See more »

Aristides,(530-468 B.C.), an Athenian statesman and military leader. He was called "the Just" because of his complete honesty in an era when corruption was common. See more »

Cimon, (507-449 B.C.), an Athenian general and statesman. He was the son of Miltiades, the general who won fame at the Battle of Marathon. See more »

Cleisthenes, or Clisthenes (latter part of the sixth century B.C.), an Athenian statesman and reformer credited with establishing democratic government in the Athenian city-state. See more »

Draco, an Athenian statesman of the seventh century B.C. He is remembered mainly for the severity of his laws, which, according to tradition, formed Athens' first written code. See more »

Epaminondas (418-362 B.C.), a Greek general of ancient Thebes. His genius gave his native city a brief period of glory, and under him Thebes displaced Sparta as the strongest power in Greece, as Sparta had previously displaced Athens. See more »

Lycurgus, in ancient Greece, the traditional lawgiver of Sparta. Most historians believe he was purely mythological while some believe he actually lived, sometime between 1100 B.C. See more »

Lysander (died 395 B.C.), a Spartan naval and military commander. By defeating the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami in 405 B.C., and then capturing Athens in 404, Lysander ended the Peloponnesian War. See more »