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The Ancient Greek Military Leaders section provides facts on notable military and Greek political leaders. Learn about Spartan heroes and Athenian idealists.
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Lysias (459-380 B.C.), an Athenian orator. Those speeches of Lysias that are still in existence provide valuable material on the customs and politics of the age. See more »
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Aristides
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.
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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.
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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.
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Dionysius, the name of two rulers, father and son, of ancient Syracuse, a Greek city in Sicily.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lysias (459-380 B.C.), an Athenian orator. Those speeches of Lysias that are still in existence provide valuable material on the customs and politics of the age.
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Nicias (? -413 B.C.), an Athenian general and statesman. Nicias was leader of the conservative, pro-Spartan party in Athens.
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Pausanias, a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century A.D. Pausanias was probably a native of Lydia, in Asia Minor.
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Pelopidas (? -364 B.C.), a Theban statesman and general. In 382 B.C. Pelopidas went into exile at Athens when Spartan troops seized control of Thebes.
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Pericles, (490-429 B.C.), an Athenian statesman. Pericles ruled Athens from 461 until his death in 429.
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Pisistratus, or Peisistratus (605- B.C.), the first Athenian tyrant (illegal ruler).
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Pittacus (650-570 B.C.), a Greek statesman who was called one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece.
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Pyrrhus, (318?-272 B.C.), a king of Epirus, an ancient country that adjoined Macedonia to the west.
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Solon, (died about 559 B.C.), an Athenian statesman known as one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
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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.
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