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    immediately following the trial Xanthippus had a brief interval as the pre-eminent politician of the day. Xanthippus' leadership was short lived due to...
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  • Diodorus says that Xanthippus was the leader of a small band of Spartan mercenaries drafted by Carthage during the war. Xanthippus was hired as a Spartan...
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  • Paralus and Xanthippus (Gr. Πάραλος and Ξάνθιππος) were the two legitimate sons of Pericles, Xanthippus being the older one and Paralus the younger, and...
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    operational control, to the Spartan mercenary general Xanthippus. In the spring of 255 BC, Xanthippus led an army strong in cavalry and elephants against...
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  • Xanthippus is the name of: Xanthippus (father of Pericles), was a wealthy Athenian of the 5th century BC, and father of Pericles Xanthippus (son of Pericles)...
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    Xanthippus is a genus of band-winged grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are about six described species in Xanthippus. These six species belong...
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    was born c. 495 BC, in Athens, Greece. He was the son of the politician Xanthippus, who, though ostracized in 485–484 BC, returned to Athens to command the...
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  • including Spartan captain Xanthippus, who was charged with retraining and restructuring the Carthaginian army. Xanthippus adopted the combined arms model...
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    species Xanthippus corallipes: Xanthippus corallipes affrictus b Xanthippus corallipes altivolus b Xanthippus corallipes buckelli b Xanthippus corallipes...
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  • Xanthippus aquilonius is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in North America. "Xanthippus aquilonius Report". Integrated...
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    found in North America. "Xanthippus montanus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25. "Xanthippus montanus". GBIF. Retrieved...
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  • Xanthippus brooksi is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in North America. "Xanthippus brooksi Report". Integrated...
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    century BC) – general Menelaus – king during the Trojan War Nabis – king Xanthippus of Carthage – Spartan mercenary in the First Punic War List of ancient...
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  • Lysicles Miltiades Moerocles Nicias Pericles Philinus Phocion Pisistratus Solon Themistocles Theramenes Thrasybulus Thucydides Timoleon Timotheus Xanthippus...
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    Sicyon Cleisthenes Hippocrates Ariphron Alcibiades Megacles Agariste Xanthippus Axiochus Cleinias Deinomache Euryptolemus Ariphron Pericles [Unknown]...
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    and took Tunis. The Carthaginians hired Spartan mercenaries, led by Xanthippus, to command their troops. In 255, the Spartan general marched on Regulus...
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    as the only method of permanently freeing them from Persian dominion. Xanthippus, the Athenian commander at Mycale, had furiously rejected this; the Ionian...
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    each other in the Battle of Plataea. Meanwhile, the Athenian navy under Xanthippus joined with the Allied fleet off Delos. They were then approached by a...
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    Socrates is supposed to have been 70 years old. Aristophanes, Clouds 60–64. Xanthippus, e.g., was the father of Pericles. Also, hippeis, literally "horsemen"...
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    of their army was given to the Spartan mercenary commander Xanthippus. In 255 BC Xanthippus led an army of 12,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry and 100 elephants...
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    declared under which at least two ostracised leaders—Pericles' father, Xanthippus, and Aristides 'the Just'—are known to have returned. Similarly, Cimon...
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    as the only method of permanently freeing them from Persian dominion. Xanthippus, the Athenian commander at Mycale, had furiously rejected this; the Ionian...
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    the highest officers, the navy, and the home guard – were mercenaries. Xanthippus of Carthage was a Spartan mercenary general employed by Carthage. Greek...
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    A bust of Pericles bearing the inscription "Pericles, son of Xanthippus, Athenian". Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from c. 430 BCE....
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    Empire Commanders and leaders Miltiades Callimachus † Aristides the Just Xanthippus Themistocles Stesilaus † Arimnestos Cynaegirus † Datis Artaphernes Hippias...
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    have too much power in the city tended to be targeted for exile (e.g., Xanthippus in 485–84 BC). Under this system, the exiled man's property was maintained...
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  • 8. Ariphron 4. Xanthippus 2. Pericles 20. Megacles 10. Hippocrates 21. Agariste of Sicyon 5. Agariste 1. Pericles the Younger 6. Axiochus 3. Aspasia...
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    cavalry and war elephants under the command of the Spartan mercenary Xanthippus crushed the Romans. The Romans sent a fleet to evacuate their survivors...
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    general Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman general Meng Tian, Chinese general Xanthippus of Carthage, Greek general Wang Jian, Chinese general Xiang Yu (項羽), Chinese...
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  • unsuccessful and, on his return, he is fined in a prosecution led by Xanthippus and put in prison where he dies of wounds received at Paros. The Athenian...
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