• Hipparchus, anglicized hipparch (Greek: ἵππαρχος, romanized: hipparchos), was the title of an ancient Greek cavalry officer, commanding a hipparchia (unit...
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    (Philopoemen of Megalopolis was Hipparch) Philopoemen of Megalopolis I 209–208 BC Nikias 208–207 BC (Aristaenos of Dyme was Hipparch) Philopoemen of Megalopolis...
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  • Socrates (Ancient Greek: Σωκράτης), son of Sathon, was hipparch of the ile of Hetairoi from Apollonia, since at least the beginning of the Asiatic expedition...
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  • Severian refuses to sell the sword. Shortly after, a masked and armoured hipparch enters the shop and challenges Severian to a duel. Severian, who believes...
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  • Heraclides or Heracleides (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἡρακλείδης), son of Antiochus, was hipparch of the ile of Hetairoi from Bottiaea, from the Triballian campaign of Alexander...
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    original on 30 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022. Hoffmann, Susanne M. (2017). Hipparchs Himmelsglobus (in German). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. Bibcode:2017hihi...
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    commanded by two hipparchi, who superintended the levy. Subordinated to each hipparch were five phylarchi, who each commanded a phyla. Both sets of officers...
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  • Amyntas (Greek: Ἀμύντας), son of Arrhabaeus, was hipparch of the ile of Prodromoi. He replaced Hegelochus and was replaced by Protomachus. Who's Who in...
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    groups of two, three or four to form a hipparchy, which was commanded by a hipparch, though the whole Companion force was generally commanded by Alexander...
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    February 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2006. Bright Star Catalogue Hoffmann, S., Hipparchs Himmelsglobus, Springer, Wiesbaden/ New York, 2017 Pogson, N. (1856)....
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  • Sopolis (Ancient Greek: Σώπολις), son of Hermodorus, was hipparch of the ile of Hetairoi from Amphipolis, since at least the Triballian campaign of Alexander...
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  • Peroidas or Peroedas (Ancient Greek: Περοίδας), son of Menestheus, was hipparch of the ile of Hetairoi from Anthemus from the beginning of the campaign...
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  • epihipparch. The unit was split into two and led by two hipparchos or hipparch, but Spartan cavalry was led by a hipparmostes. A hippotoxotès was a mounted...
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    BCE), was a Greek queen, daughter of Menon of Pharsalus, the Thessalian hipparch, and wife of Aeacides, king of Epirus, by whom she became the mother of...
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  • Demetrius (Ancient Greek: Δημήτριος), son of Althaemenes was hipparch of one ile of Hetairoi in the battle of Gaugamela. Demetrius' last recorded command...
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    Cithaeron or at Thebes, and it was a local tradition for the outgoing Theban hipparch to swear in his successor at her tomb. In Statius's Thebaid, the spring...
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  • Pantordanus or Pantordanos (Greek: Παντόρδανος), son of Cleander, was hipparch of the ile of Hetairoi of Leugaea from the beginning of the campaign of...
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    Sumerian zodiac, see Rochberg (1998), p. ix. Hoffmann, Susanne M. (2017). Hipparchs Himmelsglobus: ein Bindeglied in der babylonisch-griechischen Astrometrie...
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  • 227 BC he lost the elections against Aratus of Sicyon, but was chosen as hipparch, in this position he fell at the gates of his city during a cavalry charge...
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    astronomy. Berger, Ernst Hugo, ed. (1869). Die geographischen Fragmente des Hipparch [The Geographical Fragments of Hipparchus] (in German). Leipzig: Teubner...
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    the royal diadem on the head of Agrippa I, Caligula sent Marullus as "hipparch (ἱππάρχης) of Judea" to replace Pontius Pilate, who had been dismissed...
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  • (died 2005), late primate of the Greek-Orthodox Archdiocese of America Hipparch Hipparchus Sir Alec Issigonis, British-Greek creator of the Mini car Eleni...
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  • historian James G. DeVoto points out that Gorgidas previously served as a hipparch (cavalry officer), therefore equestrian training was also likely provided...
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    "Die Weltkarte des Agrippa als wissenschaftliches Mittelglied zwischen Hipparch und Ptolemaeus". Philologus [de]. 90 (1–2): 433. doi:10.1524/phil.1935...
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    civilization, 3000–30 BC, London and New York. Schütz, Michael (2000). "Hipparch und die Entdeckung der Präzession. Bemerkungen zu David Ulansey, Die Ursprünge...
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    on some public business: he must be received by none but the generals, hipparchs and taxiarchs, and the care of a stranger of this kind must be entirely...
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    Hipparkh[ou]  The city and the people (consacrated) Pnytarion, daghter of Hipparch[os] ΤΗΝΓΥΝΑΙΚΑΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ ΤΟΥ  tēn gynaika Asklēpidōrou (gap) tou  wife...
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    for the proconsul to oversee. The closest thing to a police force was a hipparch in office in Soli under Hadrian's rule, but this seems to have been a temporary...
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  • "Die Weltkarte des Agrippa als wissenschaftliches Mittelgleid zwischen Hipparch und Ptolemaeus", Philologus 90 (1935:405-40): Agrippa, Commentarii, pp...
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  • Hipparchus or Hipparch of Euboea (Greek: Ἵππαρχος; fl. 4th century BC) was one of the warmest partisans of Philip of Macedon, who rewarded him for his...
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