evidence of mercenaries (misthophoroi (plural), misthios (singular male), misthia (singular female) in Greek) being hired in Ancient Greece from the 6th...
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military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather than for political interests. Beginning in the 20th century, mercenaries have increasingly...
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Ten Thousand (redirect from Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries)
The Ten Thousand (Ancient Greek: οἱ Μύριοι, hoi Myrioi) were a force of mercenary units, mainly Greeks, employed by Cyrus the Younger to attempt to wrest...
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Xanthippus (Spartan commander) (category Ancient Greek mercenaries)
Xanthippus (Ancient Greek: Ξάνθιππος) of Lacedaemon, or of Carthage, was a Spartan mercenary general employed by Carthage during the First Punic War. He...
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nose unprotected. Acinaces Makhaira Ancient Greek warfare Ancient Greek mercenaries Military tactics in Ancient Greece Richard Holmes (1 April 2008). Weapon...
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For the ancient Greeks, “India" (Greek: Ινδία) referred to the geographical region situated east of Persia and south of the Himalayas (with the exception...
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Warfare occurred throughout the history of Ancient Greece, from the Greek Dark Ages onward. The Greek 'Dark Ages' drew to an end as a significant increase...
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Fortune. Fireship Press, 2007. Lanning, Michael Lee. Mercenaries: Soldiers of Fortune, from Ancient Greece to Today's Private Military Companies. Random House...
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Clearchus of Sparta (category Ancient Greek mercenaries)
Clearchus or Clearch (Ancient Greek: Κλέαρχος; 450 BC – 401 BC), also known as Clearchus the Lacedaemonian or Clearchus the son of Rhamphias, was a Spartan...
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Alexon (category Ancient Greek mercenaries)
Alexon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξων) was an ancient Greek mercenary from Achaea, who served in the Carthaginian garrison at Lilybaeum while it was besieged...
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The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic...
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Press. ISBN 978-0520031777. Greek colonies to 500 BCE Ancient Greek Colonization and Trade and their Influence on Greek Art-The Metropolitan Museum of...
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Iphicrates (category Ancient Greek mercenaries in Achaemenid service)
He is credited with important infantry reforms that revolutionized ancient Greek warfare by regularizing light-armed peltasts. Cornelius Nepos wrote...
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Xenophon (category Ancient Greek mercenaries)
Xenophon of Athens (/ˈzɛnəfən, ˈziːnə-, -ˌfɒn/; Ancient Greek: Ξενοφῶν; c. 430 – probably 355 or 354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian...
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Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest...
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Ameinias the Phocian (category Ancient Greek mercenaries)
Ameinias the Phocian (Ancient Greek: Ἀμεινίας) (flourished 277/272 BC) was an ancient Greek pirate and mercenary leader in the service of king Antigonus...
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odds against the mercenaries, Hiero saw them being defeated and decimated. However, it is likely he continued hiring Hispanic mercenaries anyway, as Livy...
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Charidemus (category Ancient Greek mercenaries)
Charidemus (or Kharidemos, ‹See Tfd›Greek: Χαρίδημος), of Oreus in Euboea, was an ancient Greek mercenary leader of the 4th century BC. He had a complicated...
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Greek economic output. Greek soil has been likened to "stinginess" or "tightness" (Ancient Greek: stenokhôría, στενοχωρία) which helps explain Greek colonialism...
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timeline of ancient Greece from its emergence around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages, Aegean...
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Memnon of Rhodes (category Ancient Greek mercenaries in Achaemenid service)
Memnon of Rhodes (Greek: Μέμνων ὁ Ῥόδιος; c. 380 – 333 BC) was a prominent Rhodian Greek commander in the service of the Achaemenid Empire. Related to...
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Proxenus of Boeotia (category Ancient Greek mercenaries in Achaemenid service)
Proxenus of Boeotia (Ancient Greek: Πρόξενος) was a disciple of Gorgias and a friend of Xenophon. He came from the city of Thebes in Boeotia. Being connected...
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Mentor of Rhodes (category Ancient Greek mercenaries in Achaemenid service)
Rhodes Mentor of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Μέντωρ Ῥόδιος) (c. 385 BC – c. 340 BC) was a Greek mercenary and later Satrap of the Asiatic coast. He fought...
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Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which...
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Timotheus (general) (category Ancient Greek mercenaries in Achaemenid service)
Timotheus (Greek: Τιμόθεος; died 354 BC) was a Greek statesman and general who sought to revive Athenian imperial ambitions by making Athens dominant...
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Meno (general) (category Ten Thousand-ancient mercenaries)
his role as one of the generals leading different contingents of Greek mercenaries in Xenophon's Anabasis. Meno is reported, by both Xenophon and Plato...
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Sophaenetus (category Ancient Greek mercenaries)
Sophaenetus (Ancient Greek: Σοφαίνετος, romanized: Sophainetos) was one of the leaders of the Ten Thousand, an army of Greek mercenaries in the service...
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Chares of Athens (category Ancient Greek mercenaries in Achaemenid service)
Chares of Athens (Ancient Greek: Χάρης ὁ Ἀθηναῖος) was a 4th-century BC Athenian military commander (Strategos), who for a number of years was one of...
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Hoplite (redirect from The Ancient Greek Hoplite)
Hoplites (/ˈhɒplaɪts/ HOP-lytes) (Ancient Greek: ὁπλῖται, romanized: hoplîtai [hoplîːtai̯]) were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily...
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