CLEARCHUS

klēärˈkəs, d. 401 b.c., Spartan officer, celebrated as the leader of the Ten Thousand. Sent in 410 to govern Byzantium, he made himself unpopular by his harsh discipline, and Alcibiades took the city in 408 b.c. Clearchus later returned and made himself virtual ruler, thereby incurring the anger of the Spartans, who forced him to leave (403). He sought refuge with Cyrus the Younger of Persia, who used him to recruit and later command the Greek mercenary force in support of Cyrus' claim to the throne. At Cunaxa, Clearchus fought boldly, but Cyrus' forces were defeated. After the battle he led the Greek force (the Ten Thousand) in retreat, but was lured into a conference by Tissaphernes and treacherously murdered. The story of the retreat was made famous by Xenophon.

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From Melos to My Lai: War and Survival
Book by Lawrence A. Tritle; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Violence--Cross-Cultural Studies, Violence--Greece--History, Violence--United States--History
...destruction of social bonds. 39 In describing Clearchus as a tough, hard man, Xenophon points...ever-ready. When Xenophon describes Clearchus as incapable of personal friendships...the event, these very factors proved Clearchus undoing in the aftermath, in the negotiations...
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A Historical Commentary on Diodorus Siculus, Book 15
Book by P. J. Stylianou; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Greece--History--To 146 B.C, History, Ancient--Historiography
...for this gap, and if the notices on Clearchus successors are correct perhaps that is...The year 365/4 for the beginning of Clearchus rule is supported by FGH 434 Memnon F6...grandchildren of the oligarchs exiled by Clearchus at the time of his coup returned to Heraclea...
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Greek Mercenaries: From the Late Archaic to Alexander
Book by Matthew Trundle; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Greece--History, Military--To 146 B.C, Greek Mercenaries
...general staff that included just one Greek, Clearchus. The Persians perceived Clearchus as the most powerful of the Greeks, a role...An . 2.1-15). Xenophon distinguished Clearchus from the other Greek strategoi at the outset...
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Ancient Epistolary Fictions: The Letter in Greek Literature
Book by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Epistolary Fiction, Greek--History And Criticism, Epistolary Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Greek Letters--History And Criticism, Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Imaginary Letters--History And Criticism, Letter Writing, Greek--History, Letters In Literature
...encourages his father to continue misleading Clearchus as to his intent, and to send any further...congratulates his father on calming Clearchus suspicions, and offers additional justification...hate him. Chion has also written to Clearchus, purposefully in an overwrought tone...
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Paradise Interpreted: Representations of Biblical Paradise in Judaism and Christianity
Book by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Paradise--History Of Doctrines--Congresses
...According to the Aristotelian pupil Clearchus, the sixth-century Samian tyrant Polycrates...23 The passage probably derives from Clearchus Lives where he relates: The Lydians...Chastity, and there outrage them .24 As Clearchus elsewhere in this passage must have used...
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Iranian Evidence for Pindar's 'spurious San'?
Journal article by John S. Sheldon; Antichthon, Vol. 37, 2003
Subjects: Inscriptions
...448d one of the diners points out that Clearchus of Soli in his treatise On Riddles lists...of the first type of riddle listed by Clearchus) and asigmatic odes. The latter, in...believe, is the first type listed by Clearchus and not some more complicated riddle...
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The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand
Journal article by Paul Cartledge; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (Book)--Book reviews
...BC until Alexander the Great took over it. T. Braun focuses on Xenophons minibiographies of the tough Spartan condottiere Clearchus and of the ultimate begetter of the entire enterprise, the Persian pretender Cyrus the Younger. C. J. Tuplins paper on...
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Greek Hoplites, Warrior Culture, and Indirect Bias
Journal article by W.G. Runciman; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4, 1998
Subjects: Greece--History, Military art and science--History, Warfare, Primitive--Research
...wherever they can, is just as commonplace in Xenophon (e.g. Anabasis II.1.4-5 where the Spartan mercenary commander Clearchus is made to say that arche goes to whoever wins in battle). Similarly Herodotus, although he dislikes tyrants, is quite...
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Pozo Moro, Child Sacrifice, and the Greek Legendary Tradition
Journal article by John S. Rundin; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 123, 2004
Subjects: Ancient civilizations, Children & youth, Rites & ceremonies, Spain
...child sacrifice, perhaps practiced by Phalaris or Semitic inhabitants of his city.23 An odd detail supports this notion. Clearchus, cited at Athenaeus 9.396e, claimed that Phalaris dined on suckling children. In the Greek tradition of sacrificial slaughter...
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Androgyny and Linguistic Power in Gascoigne's the Steele Glass
Journal article by Kevin LaGrandeur; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 37, 1995
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...proffitable poems, wherewith your majestie may be pleased / Only employ me (good Quene) and I trust to be proved as dillygent as Clearchus. ( Works 2:477) 2 Such statements as these indicate Gascoigne meant his later work to exhibit his ability to write poetry...


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Thalatta! Thalatta!
Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; New Criterion, Vol. 24, October 2005
Subjects: "The Sea! The Sea!": The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (Book), Books--Book reviews, The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (Book)--Book reviews
...drill-masters, chiefly the brutish Clearchus, and kept pressing ahead. They wanted...of both the Spartan mercenary warlord Clearchus and the Persian Prince Cyrus. But the...Xenophonean veneer from the tyrannical Clearchus and the would-be fratricide Cyrus...


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encyclopedia articles on: Clearchus  - 4 results

 
 
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Clearchus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CLEARCHUS klear k s, d. 401 b.c., Spartan...Alcibiades took the city in 408 b.c. Clearchus later returned and made himself virtual...Cyrus claim to the throne. At Cunaxa , Clearchus fought boldly, but Cyrus forces were...
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Tissaphernes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cyrus in the battle of Cunaxa (401). He pursued the retreating Greek allies (the Ten Thousand) and treacherously murdered Clearchus and four other Greek leaders ( Xenophon ). Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus were the chief figures in Artaxerxes reign. After...
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Cyrus the Younger
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of his mother and was restored to his satrapies. He began careful plans for a rebellion. He collected an army and through Clearchus hired a large troop of Greek mercenaries (the Ten Thousand) for the campaign. On the pretext of setting out to put down...
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Cunaxa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the scene of a battle (401 b.c.) between Cyrus the Younger and Artaxerxes II , described by Xenophon in the Anabasis. Clearchus , Spartan mercenary leader under Cyrus, chose to attack the Persian left wing (under Tissaphernes), which he completely...


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