Person

On this page, you will find an overview of ancient people who are known to us as individuals (and not as groups).

There are 794 items in Person:

Phameas

Phameas: Carthaginian cavalry officer during the Third Punic War. Armor of a Carthaginian officer (Ksour es-Saf) In the third century BCE, Rome and Carthage…

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Pharnabazus (1)

Pharnabazus (second quarter fifth century BCE): Persian nobleman, after 455 (?) satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia. Achaemenid nobleman, late sixth/early fifth century…

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Pharnaces (2)

Pharnaces II (Elamite Parnaka): satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia (c.430-c.422). Achaemenid nobleman, late sixth/early fifth century BCE. Pharnaces II was the son of…

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Pharnaces I of Pontus

Pharnaces I: king of Pontus (r.185-160 BCE).Pharnaces succeeded his father Mithridates III in c.185 BCE and captured Sinope in 183 BCE. This was the beginning of what was called the "Pontic War", in which the kingdom of Pontus had to face…

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Phila I

Phila (c.355- 288): Macedonian lady, wife of Craterus.Relatives Father: Antipater First husband: Alexander of Lyncestis Second husband: Balacrus Third husband: Craterus Son: Craterus Fourth husband: Demetrius Poliorcetes Children: Stratonice I and Antigonus Gonatas Main deeds c.355: Born as daughter of Antipater, First marriage to Alexander of Lyncestis, a Macedonian nobleman 336:…

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Phila II

Phila II (c.295- after 275): Seleucid princess, married to Antigonus II Gonatas.Relatives Father: Seleucus I Nicator Mother: Stratonice I Husband: Antigonus Gonatas Main deeds 276: Phila II marries Antigonus Gonatas She has a son, Demetrius II

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Philetaerus

Philetaerus: ruler of Pergamon (d. 263), founder of the Attalid dynasty. Philetaerus (bust from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum) Relatives Father: Attalus,…

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Philip Arrhidaeus

Philip Arrhidaeus (c.356-317): the mentally deficient and epileptic brother of Alexander the Great who succeeded him as king of the Macedonian Empire in 323, but had several regents, who all used their pupil for their own purposes. …

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