Polycrates of Argos, son of Mnasiades, was a Ptolemaic commander at the Battle of Raphia, as well as a governor of Cyprus and chancellor of the Ptolemaic...

author of paradoxical encomia and an Accusation of Socrates Polycrates of Ephesus (fl. c. AD 130-196), bishop Polycrates of Argos Dalla polycrates, a butterfly...

Around October or November 197 BC, the Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus, Polycrates of Argos, came to Alexandria, and arranged for Ptolemy V to be declared...

Polycrates of Argos. Those from Greece and the mercenaries were led by Echecrates the Thessalian. Ptolemy's force was accompanied by 73 elephants of the...

attested again after this. Polycrates of Argos replaced him as governor of Cyprus. Pelops was married to Myrsine daughter of Hyperbassas, who was honoured...

are memories of an earlier aniconic representation, as a pillar in Argos and as a plank in Samos." At Argos in a Greek myth the priestess of Hera Phoronis...

in Argos) Bacchylides (b. c. 507 BCE) Dates unknown: Ibycus, flourished in Rhegium Aesop Theognis of Megara Corinna Ode to Polycrates Jeremiah of Anathoth...

The Ptolemaic governors of Cyprus ruled the island on behalf of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, from the abolition of the traditional kingdoms on the island in...

378. War against Polycrates: c.525, Corinth and exiled Samians encouraged Sparta to launch an attack against Polycrates, tyrant of Samos. The expedition...

Dionysius transfers control of Mylae to Messene 390 Kroton is annexed by Syracuse 390 Argos and Korinth unite into Argos-Korinth 390 Castrugiuvani is...

ascribed to Ibycus, glorifying a youthful Polycrates, but this was unlikely to have been the Polycrates of Samos and might instead have been his son,...

famous metal kraters in antiquity were one in the possession of the Samian tyrant Polycrates, and another one dedicated by Croesus to the Delphic oracle...

tyrant Polycrates of Samos and dedicated to the Delian Apollo. The southern half of the island was the necropolis of Delos. In the sixth year of the Peloponnesian...

280-270 BC (conquered) Demoteles, 7th century BC Syloson, c. 538 BC Polycrates, c. 538-522 BC Maiandrius, c. 522 BC (reintroduced democracy) Charilaus...

madness of Cambyses The good fortune of Polycrates, king of Samos Periander, the king of Corinth and Corcyra, and his obstinate son The revolt of the two...

when the existing oligarchy was overturned by the tyrant Polycrates, Samos reached the height of its prosperity. Its navy not only protected it from invasion...

escape the tyranny of Polycrates at the age of forty, we may put his birth round about 570 BC, or a few years earlier. The length of his life was variously...

Sparta–Argos War 600–265 BC Greek–Punic Wars 595–585 BC First Sacred War 560 BC Second Arcadian War 540 BC Battle of Alalia 538–522 BC Polycrates wars 509–396...

The heyday of the Archaic period tyrants came in the early 6th century BC, when Cleisthenes ruled Sicyon in the Peloponnesus and Polycrates ruled Samos...

part of the sea empire of Polycrates during the 6th century BC, and during the 5th century BC, the Icarian cities of Oenoe and Thermae were members of the...

1997. ISBN 84-345-9707-1. Enciclopedia temática Argos. Bellas Artes II (in Spanish). Barcelona: Argos Vergara. 1986. ISBN 84-7017-442-8. Historia de la...

entirely of wood, as was the entablature. Ionic volute capitals survive from the outer peristasis of the later rebuilding by Polycrates. The columns of the...

– Stoic philosopher Polemon of Laodicea – sophist Polybius – historian Polycarp – Christian saint Polycrates – tyrant of Samos Polycrete (Πολυκρίτη) –...

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