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Socrates
Socrates (; ; – 399 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre. Contrad
Callistratus of Aphidnae
Athenian orator and general
Thrasyllus
Thrasyllus (; ; died 406 BC) was an Athenian strategos (general) and statesman who rose to prominence in the later years of the Peloponnesian War. First appearing in Athenian politics in 410 BC, in the wake of the Athenian coup of 411 BC, he played a role in organizing democratic resistance in an Athenian fleet at Samos. There, he was elected strategos by the sailors and soldiers of the fleet, and held the position until he was controversially executed several years later after the Battle of Arginusae.
Pericles the Younger
late 5th-century BC Athenian general
Timasitheus of Delphi
Late 6th-century Greek soldier and Olympic competitor
Leon of Salamis
Greek philosopher
Leosthenes
Athenian admiral defeated by Alexander of Pherae
Strombichides
Strombichides () was an Athenian admiral and politician who lived during the late 5th century BC.
Aneristus
Aneristus (), the son of Sperthias, a Lacedaemonian ambassador, and grandson of Aneristus, was a figure in the Peloponnesian War. He was sent at the beginning of the war, around 430 BCE, to solicit the aid of the king of Persia. He was surrendered by the Athenians, together with the other ambassadors who accompanied him, by Sadocus, son of Sitalces, king of Thrace, taken to Athens, and there put to death.
Alexicles
Athenian general (5th-century BC)
Agnonides
Agnonides (Gr. , fl. 4th century BC) was an ancient Athenian demagogue and sycophant, a contemporary of Theophrastus and Phocion. The former was accused by Agnonides of impiety, but was acquitted by the Areopagus, and Theophrastus might have ruined his accuser had he been less generous. Agnonides was opposed to the Macedonian party at Athens, and was one of the orators who urged the Athenians to fight in the Lamian War against the Macedonians after the death of Alexander The Great. After the Macedonian victory by Antipater, Agnonides was sent into exile. He returned to Athens with Alexander, s