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[2] During the Athenian political upheaval in the late 5th century, Polemarchus was singled out by the Thirty Tyrants for being a wealthy metic. Unlike his brother, he did not manage to escape and was executed by being forced to drink hemlock. Melobius, one of the Thirty, snatched golden earrings from Polemarchus' wife.
A polemarch (/ ˈ p ɒ l ə ˌ m ɑːr k /, from Ancient Greek: πολέμαρχος, polemarchos) was a senior military title in various ancient Greek city states . The title is derived from the words polemos (war) and archon (ruler, leader) and translates as "warleader" or "warlord".
Born at "Farmer's Joy" in Nelson County, Virginia, to Irish immigrant and Revolutionary War veteran John Thompson (1755–1828) and his wife Rebecca Edwards Powell (1769– ), Lucas Thompson was one of nine children. He attended Hampden-Sydney College, and took a walking tour of Spain when he was 18. [4] Thompson married three times.
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Seventy-seven fragments of his writings remain, mostly from his four-volume Attica, which discussed the cult, religion, and institutions of Attica in its mythical past, based largely on Atthides. [2] According to the Suda , a 10th-century encyclopedia, he wrote both prose and verse.
Attica (Greek: Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or Attikī́, Ancient Greek: [atːikɛ̌ː] or Modern:), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.
Black-and-white clips from the closing days of World War II invoke memories of U.S.-Russian friendship, with smiling American and Russian soldiers embracing at the River Elbe.
[3] Plutarch, in his work: Moralia. Greek and Roman Parallel Stories mentions that Callimachus was pierced with so many spears that, even when he was dead, he continued to be in an upright posture. [4] There was a custom at Athens that the father of the man who had the most valorous death in a battle should pronounce the funerary oration in public.