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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Acro'tatus (search)
Acro'tatus 2. The grandson of the preceding, and the son of Areus I. king of Sparta. He had unlawful intercourse with Chelidonis, the young wife of Cleonymus, who was the uncle of his father Areus; and it was this, together with the disappointment of not obtaining the throne, which led Cleonymus to invite Pyrrhus to Sparta, B. C. 272. Areus was then absent in Crete, and the safety of Sparta was mainly owing to the valour of Acrotatts. He succeeded his father in B. C. 265, but was killed in the same year in battle against Aristodemus, the tyrant of Megalopolis. Pausanias, in speaking of his death, calls him the son of Cleonymus. but he has mistaken him for his grandfather, spoken of above. (Plut. Pyrrh. 26-28; Agis, 3; Paus. 3.6.3, 8.27.8, 30.3.) Areus and Acrotatus are accused by Phylarchus (apud Athen. iv. p. 142b.) of having corrupted the simplicity of Spartan manners.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Alexander Ii. or Alexander of Epirus king of EPIRUS, was the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles. He succeeded his father in B. C. 272, and continued the war which his father had begun with Antigonus Gonatas, whom he succeeded in driving from the kingdom of Macedon. He was, however, dispossessed of both Macedon and Epirus by Demetrius, the son of Antigonus; upon which he took refuge amongst the Acarnanians. By their assistance and that of his own subjects, who entertained a great attachment for him, he recovered Epirus. It appears that he was in alliance with the Aetolians. He married his sister Olympias, by whom he had two sons, Pyrrhus and Ptolemaeus, and a daughter, Phthia. On the death of Alexander, Olympias assumed the regency on behalf of her sons, and married Phthia to Demetrius. There are extant silver and copper coins of this king. The former bear a youthful head covered with the skin of an elephant's head, as appears in the one figured
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Archidameia (search)
Archidameia 3. A Spartan woman, who distinguished herself by her heroic spirit when Sparta was nearly taken by Pyrrhus in B. C. 272, and opposed the plan which had been entertained of sending the women to Crete. Plutarch (Plut. Pyrrh. 27) calls her *)Arxidami/a, but Polyaenus (8.49) *)Arxi/damis. The latter writer calls her the daughter of king Cleadas (Cleomenes ?).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
s of Areus. These, ignorant of the number of their enemies, were struck with a panic and fled, leaving 9000 of their number dead. Thus the expedition turned out fruitless, and the attempts of Sparta to renew the war met with no encouragement from the other states, which suspected that the real design of Sparta was not to liberate Greece, but to obtain the supremacy for herself. (Justin, 24.1 : it is scarcely credible that the numbers can be right.) When Sparta was attacked by Pyrrhus, in B. C. 272 [ACROTATUS], Areus was absent on an expedition in Crete. He returned straight to Sparta, and formed an alliance with the Argives, the effect of which was, that Pyrrhus drew off his forces from Sparta to attack Argos. (Paus. 3.6.2 ; Plut. Pyrrh. 26-29.) In the year 267, Areus united with Ptolemy Philadelphus in an unsuccessful attempt to save Athens from Antigonus Gonatas. (Paus. 3.6.3; Justin, 26.2.) He fell in a battle against the Macedonians at Corinth, in the next year but one, 265 B. C
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ari'steas (search)
Ari'steas 4. An Argive, who invited Pyrrhus to Argos, B. C. 272, as his rival Aristippus was supported by Antigonus Gonatas. (PIut. Pyrrh. 30.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Aristippus (search)
Aristippus 2. An Argive, who obtained the supreme power at argos through the aid of Antigonus Gonatas, about B. C. 272. (Plut. Pyrrh. 30.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cheli'donis (search)
Cheli'donis （*Xelidoni/s), a Spartan woman of great beauty and royal blood, daughter of Leotychides. She married Cleonymus, who was much older than herself, and to whom she proved unfaithful in consequence of a passion for Acrotatus, son of Areus I. It was partly on account of this injury that Cleonymus, offended also by his exclusion from the throne, invited Pyrrhus to attempt the conquest of Sparta in B. C. 272. Chelidonis, alarmed for the result, was prepared to put an end to her own life rather than fall into her husband's hands; but Pyrrhus was beaten off from the city, chiefly through the valour of Acrotatus. If we may trust the account of Plutarch, the Spartans generally of both sexes exhibited more sympathy with the lovers than indignation at their guilt,--a proof of the corruption of manners, which Phylarchus (apud Athen. iv. p. 142b.) ascribes principally to Acrotatus and his father. (Plut. Pyrrh. 26-28.) [E.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cleo'nymus (search)
us was defeated and driven back to his ships by the consul, M. Aemilius; while others of them related that, Junius Bubulcus the dictator being sent against him, he withdrew from Italy to avoid a conflict. After this, abandoning a notion he had formed of freeing the Sicilians from the tyranny of Agathocles, he sailed up the Adriatic and made a piratical descent on the country of the Veneti; but he was defeated by the Patavians and obliged to sail away. He then seized and garrisoned Corcyra, from which he seems to have been soon expelled by Demetrius Poliorcetes. While, however, he still held it, he was recalled to Italy by intelligence of the revolt of the Tarentines and others whom he had reduced: but he was beaten off from the coast, and returned to Corcyra. Henceforth we hear no more of him till B. C. 272, when he invited Pyrrhus to attempt the conquest of Sparta. [ACROTATUS; CHELIDONIS.] (Diod. 20.104, 105; Liv. 10.2; Strab. vi. p.280; Paus. 3.6; Plut. Agis 3, Pyrrh. 26, &c.) [E.E]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cursor (search)
Cursor 4. L. Papirius Cursor, a son of No. 3, was censor in B. C. 272. (Frontin. de Aquaed. 1.6.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cursor (search)
magnificent triumph. The booty which Papirius exhibited on that occasion was very rich; but his troops, who were not satisfied with the plunder they had been allowed, murmured because he did not, like Carvilius, distribute money among them, but delivered up everything to the treasury. He dedicated the temple of Quirinus, which his father had vowed, and adorned it with a solarium horologium, or a sun-dial, the first that was set up in public at Rome. He was raised to the consulship again in B. C. 272, together with his former colleague, Carvilius, for the exploits of their former consulship had made such an impression upon the Romans, that they were looked up to as the only men capable of bringing the wearisome struggle with the Samnites to a close. They entirely realized the hopes of their nation, for the Samnites, Lucanians, and Bruttians were compelled to submit to the majesty of Rome. But we have no account of the manner in which those nations were thus reduced. On his return to Ro
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