Plutarch (Greek: Πλούταρχος; fl. 4th century BC) was a tyrant of Eretria in Euboea. Whether he was the immediate successor of Themison, and also whether he was in any way connected with him by blood, are points which we have no means of ascertaining. Trusting perhaps to the influence of his friend Meidias, he applied to the Athenians in 354 BC for aid against his rival, Callias of Chalcis, who had allied himself with Philip of Macedon. The application was granted in spite of the resistance of Demosthenes, and the command of the expedition was entrusted to Phocion, who defeated Callias at Tamynae in 350 BC. But the conduct of Plutarch in the battle had placed the Athenians in great jeopardy, and though it may have been nothing more than rashness, Phocion would seem to have regarded it as treachery, for he thenceforth treated Plutarch as an enemy and expelled him from Eretria.[1]
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Plutarch (Greek: Πλούταρχος; fl. 4th century BC) was a tyrant ofEretria in Euboea. Whether he was the immediate successor of Themison, and also whether...
Eretria (/əˈriːtriə/; Greek: Ερέτρια, Erétria, Ancient Greek: Ἐρέτρια, Erétria, literally 'city of the rowers') is a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the...
lived 4th century BC) was tyrant ofEretria in Euboea. After Plutarch had been expelled from the tyranny ofEretria by Phocion in 350 BC, popular government...
The siege ofEretria took place in 490 BC, during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The city ofEretria, on Euboea, was besieged by a strong Persian...
Menedemus ofEretria (Greek: Μενέδημος ὁ Ἐρετριεύς; 345/44 – 261/60 BC) was a Greek philosopher and founder of the Eretrian school. He learned philosophy...
Athenian involvement in the Ionian Revolt, when Athens and Eretria sent a force to support the cities of Ionia in their attempt to overthrow Persian rule. The...
consisting of two distinct campaigns, was ordered by the Persian king Darius the Great primarily in order to punish the city-states of Athens and Eretria. These...
military conflict between the two ancient Greek city states Chalcis and Eretria in Euboea which took place in the early Archaic period, between c. 710...
destruction of Athens and Eretria. In the next two decades, there would be two Persian invasions of Greece, occasioning, thanks to Greek historians, some of the...
son Aristides of Thebes, and Philoxenus ofEretria. Rape of Proserpina (located in the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, in the cella of Minerva) Victory...
goddess of victory. 350 Hipparinos is overthrown by Aretaeus 350 Mamercus ousts Callippus from Catania 349 Plutarch is expelled from Eretria 349 Aretaeus...
extra detail for the period is provided by Plutarch, in his biographies of Aristides and especially Cimon. Plutarch was writing some 600 years after the events...
to Athens to deliver news of the victory of the battle of Marathon. The name Philippides is reported by Pausanias, Plutarch, and Lucian, writers who had...
attack against the Persian camp, of which modern scholars have tended to be skeptical. The city-states of Athens and Eretria had aided the unsuccessful Ionian...
Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon or the allied Greek defeat at Thermopylae. The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had supported the unsuccessful...
alliance with Philip of Macedon against Plutarch, tyrant ofEretria, with the view of extending his authority over the whole of Euboea, a design which...
course of the Greco-Persian Wars as a whole; from then onward, the Greek poleis would take the offensive. The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had...
Auberson, Eretria. Fouilles et Recherches I, Temple d'Apollon Daphnéphoros, Architecture (Bern, 1968). See also Plutarch, Pythian Oracle, 16. DAUGHTER OF SPARTA...
references to Plutarch and his works. James Boswell quoted Plutarch on writing lives, rather than biographies, in the introduction to his own Life of Samuel...
ofEretria, supported by a force of mercenary troops. From an anecdote mentioned by Plutarch, it appears that Philip entertained for him feelings of warm...
component of the Long Walls from Athens to the port of Piraeus is completed. Achaeus ofEretria, a Greek playwright, produces his first play. Pericles...
Additional details are provided by Plutarch's Parallel Lives biographies of Aristides and especially Cimon. Plutarch wrote six centuries after the events...
incite the whole of Ionia into rebellion against the Persian king Darius the Great. In 498 BC, supported by troops from Athens and Eretria, the Ionians marched...
left merely with a list of names and the word aeinautai. A second inscription LSAG 88.21a.S433 from Eretria, records a dedication of a herma made by the "association"...
of danger? —Plato, Symposium Plutarch (46–120 AD), a native of the village of Chaeronea, is the source of the most substantial surviving account of the...
ofEretria (Diodorus has general Artabazos I of Phrygia as a mediator) to Xerxes I saying he wished to help Xerxes and bring Sparta with the rest of Greece...
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