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Born c.450 BCE • Athens • ancient Greece
Died 404 BCE • Phrygia
Role In Peloponnesian War

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Greek mercenary
Pericles
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Athenian statesman
Theramenes
Greek politician and general
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Phormion
Greek admiral
Themistocles
Athenian politician and naval strategist
Cimon
Greek statesman and general
Aristides The Just
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Greek statesman
Nicias
Greek general
Timotheus
Greek statesman
Conon
Greek admiral
Laches
Greek general
Cleon
Athenian politician
Cleophon
Greek statesman
Thucydides manuscript, 3rd century bc (Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, P. Hamburg 163).
Thucydides
Greek historian
Demosthenes
Demosthenes
Greek statesman and orator
Solon
Solon
Greek statesman and poet
Isocrates
Greek orator and rhetorician
Peisistratus
Peisistratus
tyrant of Athens
Cleisthenes of Athens
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