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ETOLIKO (Town) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
1914 - 1988
1914 - 1988
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1751 - 1826
KALYDON (Ancient city) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
Damocritus, (Damokritos). Of Calydon in Aetolia, was strategus of the Aetolians
in B. C. 200, and in the discussions as to whether an alliance should be formed
with the Romans, Damocritus, who was believed to have been bribed by the Macedonian
king, opposed the party inclined to negotiate with Rome. The year after this he
was among the ambassadors of the various Greek states that went to Rome. In B.
C. 193 he was sent by the Aetolians to Nabis, the tyrant of Sparta, whom he urged
on to make war against the Romans. The year after, when T. Quinctius Flamininus
went himself to Aetolia, to make a last attempt to win them over, Damocritus not
only opposed him along with the majority of his countrymen, but insulted him by
saying that he would soon settle all disputes on the banks of the Tiber. But things
turned out differently from what he expected: in B. C. 191 the Aetolians were
defeated at Heracleia, near mount Oeta, and Damocritus fell into the hands of
the Romans. He and the other leaders of the Aetolians were escorted to Rome by
two cohorts, and he was imprisoned in the Lautumiae. A few days before the celebration
of the triumph, which he was intended to adorn, he escaped from his prison by
night, but finding that he could not escape the guards who pursued him, he threw
himself upon his own sword and thus put an end to his life. (Liv. xxxi. 32, xxxv.
12, 33, xxxvi. 24, xxxvii. 3, 46; Polyb. xvii. 10, xxii. 14; Appian, de Reb. Syr.
21; Brandstater, Die Gesch. des Aetol. Landes, &c.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1876 - 1967
ETOLIKO (Town) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
1901 - 1982
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1788 - 1824
1859 - 1943
1869 - 1943
1886 - 1958
PLEVRON (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Alexander Aetolus (Alexandros ho Aitolos), a Greek poet and grammarian, who lived in the reign of
Ptolemaeus Philadelphus. He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and a native
of Pleuron in Aetolia, but spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where
he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the tragic pleiad
(Suid. s. v.; Eudoc. p. 62; Paus. ii. 22.7; Schol. ad Hom. Il. xvi. 233). He had
an office in the library at Alexandria, and was commissioned by the king to make
a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant. He spent
some time, together with Antagoras and Aratus, at the court of Antigonus Gonatas.Notwithstanding
the distinction he enjoyed as a tragic poet, he appears to have had greater merit
as a writer of epic poems, elegies, epigrams, and cynaedi. Among his epic poems,
we possess the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the Fisherman (halieus,
Athen. vii.), Kirka or Krika (Athen. vii.), which, however, is designated by Athenaeus
as doubtful, and Helena. Of his elegies, some beautiful fragments are still extant.
His Cynaedi, or Ionika poiemata, are mentioned by Strabo (xiv.) and Athenaeus.
(xiv.). Some anapaestic verses in praise of Euripides are preserved in Gellius
(xv. 20).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1788 - 1873
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1867 - 1943
1867 - 1943
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