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Leonidas – Olympias' uncle and Alexander's great-uncle. Leonidas serves as regent of Macedon during one of Philip's absences and seeks to toughen Alexander into an obedient, hard soldier. Attalos – One of Phliip's generals. Early in the novel he attacks Pausanias as part of a romantic quarrel of honor.
Leonidas of Epirus (Greek: Λεωνίδας ο Ηπειρώτης) or Leuconides (Greek: Λευκονίδης), was a tutor of Alexander the Great. A kinsman of Alexander's mother, Olympias , he was entrusted with the main superintendence of Alexander's education in his earlier years, apparently before he became a student of Aristotle.
Arybbas of Epirus Tethrippon Olympics 344 BC [3] Tlasimachus of Ambracia Tethrippon and Synoris Olympics 296 BC [4] Simacus (son of Phalacrion) Thesprotian 3rd-2nd century BC Pancratiast, Epidauria (fined) [5] [6] Alcemachus (son of Charops) Diaulos (~400-metre race) Panathenaics 194/3 BC
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He was a son of King Pyrrhus of Epirus and his fourth wife, Bircenna, daughter of Bardylis II of Illyria.Helenus was the youngest of Pyrrhus' sons. [1]At a very young age he accompanied his father on his ambitious campaign in Italy. [2]
Fragment of an epigram attributed to Leonidas about deer-hunting, from a fresco in Suasa (now Castelleone di Suasa, Italy) Leonidas of Tarentum (/ l iː ˈ ɒ n ɪ d ə s /; Doric Greek: Λεωνίδας ὁ Ταραντῖνος) was an epigrammatist and lyric poet. He lived in Italy in the third century B.C. at Tarentum, on the coast of ...
Iskander was a young prince when his father's kingdom (Epirus) was taken over by the Turks. He was brought up a Moslem, although secretly remaining Christian. When his father died, the Turks saw Iskander's potential as an officer in their occupying armies (of the Emperor Amurath II).