ARATUS, Greek Statesman and General

d. 213 b.c., Greek statesman and general of Sicyon, prime mover and principal leader of the Second Achaean League. His objective at first was to free the Peloponnesus from Macedonian domination, and he is credited with bringing into the confederation many of the principal cities of Greece. But he was blamed for the subsequent Macedonian domination of the Peloponnesus, for while fighting Cleomenes III of Sparta and the Aetolian League he changed his policy toward Macedonia and called in Antigonus III.

See F. W. Walbank, Aratos of Sicyon (1933).

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The Greek Historians
Book by T. J. Luce; Routledge, 1997
...with events of the eleventh century, affirmed this general proposition FGrH 70 F9 . But a historian of talent and...picked up the narrative where the memoirs of the Achaean statesman Aratus had ended 1.3 . One should stress that the remote...
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Greek Life and Thought from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest
Book by John Pentland Mahaffy; Macmillan Company, 1896
Subjects: Greece--Civilization, Greece--Social Life And Customs, Hellenism
...strong and honest union among Greeks. If they had left us a historian...ever produced a really great statesman and general. We have already seen what Aratus was. The sketch we have...against the athletic habit of Aratus. Philopoemen was, moreover...
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Greek Life and Thought: From the Age of Alexander to the Roman Conquest
Book by J. P. Mahaffy; Macmillan, 1887
Subjects: Greece--Civilization, Greece--Social Life And Customs, Hellenism
...strong and honest union among Greeks. If they had left us a historian...ever produced a really great statesman and general. We have already seen what Aratus was. This sketch we have...against the athletic habit of Aratus. He was, moreover, a good...
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A Commentary on Plutarch's Pericles
Book by Philip A. Stadter; University of North Carolina Press, 1989
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Biography, Greece--History--Athenian Supremacy, 479-431 B.C, Orators--Greece--Athens--Biography, Pericles--499-429 B.C, Plutarch--Pericles, Statesmen--Greece--Athens--Biography
...considered the basis of Greek moral education. 4...only two survive, the Aratus and the Artaxerxes...Parallel Lives , pairs of Greek and Roman statesmen set side by side, of...37. On the Moralia in general see Russell, Plutarch...
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Classical Cynicism: A Critical Study
Book by Luis E. Navia; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Cynics (Greek Philosophy)
...Megalopolis among them. Aratus, a statesman from Sicyon, a northwestern...had become obvious to Aratus that the major threat...and with Cercidas as a general leading a contingent...to us as ambassador, general, and lawgiver. Before...history of Cynicism. Generals were viewed by Crates...
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The Soul of Plutarchos
Magazine article by Brian Doyle; American Scholar, Vol. 69, Summer 2000
Subjects: Authors, Greek--Behavior, Greek writers--Behavior, Plutarch--Behavior
...between two mighty generals for the whole Roman...great orator and statesman Cicero perceiving...than his left; Aratus, at age seven...Plutarch, the Greek Boswell); his...sense that the Greeks work would never...restorer of the Greek, who lived about...learning must suffer a general shipwreck, and...neighbor, eloquent statesman and scholar, reverent...


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Aratus , Greek Statesman and General
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARATUS , Greek statesman and general d. 213 b.c., Greek statesman and general of Sicyon, prime mover and principal leader of the Second Achaean League . His objective at first was to free the Peloponnesus from Macedonian domination, and he...


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