Alcimachus

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Alcimachus or Alkimachos may refer to:

  • Alkimachos Painter Attic red-figure vase painter c. 460 BC[1]
  • Alcimachus a painter mentioned by Pliny. He is not spoken of by any other writer, and all that is known about him is, that he painted a picture of Dioxippus, a victor in the pancratium at Olympia[2].
  • Alcimachus Athenian general in Amphipolis 364 BC[3]
  • Alcimachus of Pella honoured by Demades[4]
  • Alcimachus brother of Lysimachus ,youngest of the sons of Thessalian Agathocles. General and diplomat of Alexander the Great[5]
  • Alcimachus father of Euphorbus traitor, he betrayed Eretria to Persians.[6]
  • Alcimachus of Pydna Macedonian-Epirote buried in Pydna

[edit] References

  1. ^ wiki-commons
  2. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
  3. ^ The North Aegean Wars, 371-360 B.C Page 35 By Julia Heskel ISBN 3515069178
  4. ^ Aeschines and Athenian Politics Page 226 By Edward Monroe Harris ISBN 0195082850
  5. ^ Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire - Page 9 by Waldemar Heckel ISBN 1405112107
  6. ^ Hdt. 6.101, Paus. 7.10.2