EVAGORAS

ĭvăgˈərəs, d. c.374 b.c., despot of Cyprus. Exiled in his youth, he returned (411 b.c.) and made good his claim as ruler of Salamis. By 410 b.c. he had spread his control over the whole island. Friendly to Athens, he sought to bring Athenian culture to Cyprus, partly by giving refuge to exiled Athenians (notably Conon). Evagoras built a powerful fleet and with it harried the mainland (under Persian control). After the Peace of Antalcidas (386 b.c., see Corinthian War), he lost all Greek support and found himself alone in war with Persia. Artaxerxes II defeated him in 381 b.c. and destroyed his fleet. Given easy peace terms, Evagoras kept at least nominal rule of the island. Isocrates wrote an encomium of him.

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A Commentary on Isocrates' Busiris
Book by Niall Livingstone; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Isocrates--Busiris, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--History And Criticism
that, if the earlier ancestors-in Evagoras case, the Aeacidae in the distant heroic...latter (1440b32-35). Then in 22 come Evagoras boyhood virtues (x ?,?,05, ?6pq...there is no very clear organ- isation of Evagoras achievements according to the virtues...
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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
...represented a collusion between Orontes and Evagoras, though we should not suppose that Evagoras actually participated in the arrest of Tiribazus...not been misunderstood by Photius, is that Evagoras was the originator of the plot while its...
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Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narative - Vol. 1
Book by Irene De Jong, Rene Nunlist, Angus Bowie; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 500
...and heroic ancestry and the birth of Evagoras ( 12-21). The overt external narrator...narrative in ?13. It culminates in 2 1 with Evagoras birth, which is described in one long...the second instalment of the story of Evagoras life (with a gar at the start of 22...
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Theopompus of Chios: History and Rhetoric in the Fourth Century BC
Book by Michael Attyah Flower; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Historiography, Historians--Greece--Biography, Historiography--Greece, Theopompus--Of Chios
...of Theopompus account of the death of Evagoras I of Cyprus and has attributed most of...unexpectedly was detected, and escaped; how Evagoras and his son Pyntagoras, unknown to each...significant that Aristotle also claimed that Evagoras death was the result of a sexual indiscretion...
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A History of Ancient Coinage, 700-300 B.C
Book by Percy Gardner; Clarendon Press, 1918
Subjects: Coinage, Coins, Ancient, Numismatics, Greek
...have the following approximate dates: Evagoras I of Salamis in Cyprus, 411-373; Nicocles, 371-361; Evagoras II, 361-351; Pnytagoras, 351...Macedon, 359-336. Of these rulers, Evagoras I issued the half-drachm 31.4 grains...
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Desperately Seeking Screenplays: Five Contemporary Greek Films Considered
Journal article by Andrew Horton; Film Criticism, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Motion picture authorship--Forecasts, Motion picture authorship--Technique, Motion picture industry--Forecasts
...Dekatpendavgustos, 2001), Andreas Pantziss third feature, Evagoras Vow (To Tama, 2001), and Sotiris Gortsass third feature...having graduated from the much acclaimed film school in Moscow. Evagoras Vow, his recent film, is an extremely ambitious historical...
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Bringing Candidacies in from the Cold: Mainstreaming Minority Candidates, 1960 and 2008
Journal article by Mary E. Stuckey, Kristina E. Curry, Andrew D. Barnes; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 40, 2010
Subjects: Kennedy, John F.--Political activity, Kennedy, John F.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Minorities--Political activity, Obama, Barack--Political activity, Obama, Barack--Speeches, lectures and essays, Presidential candidates--Political activity, Presidential candidates--Speeches, lectures and essays, Presidential elections--Demographic aspects, Presidents--Demographic aspects, Presidents--Elections, United States--Political aspects
...Obscure Senator Will Try Again." Boston Globe, January 11. Poulakos, Takis. 1987. "Isocratess Use of Narrative in the Evagoras: Epideictic Rhetoric and Moral Action." Quarterly Journal of Speech 73 (August): 317-28. Rioux, Terry Lee. 2001...
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From Psychosocial Equilibrium to Catastrophic Breakdown: Cyprus 1955-1974
Journal article by Catia Galatariotou; International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 89, 2008
Subjects: Politics, Society, Violence
...and culturally deeply offensive circumstances surrounding the trial and hanging of an adolescent schoolboy in particular (Evagoras Pallikarides) during the Emergency gave EOKA the perfect sacrificial victim that finally turned it into a mass movement and...


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Re-running Marathon
Magazine article by Barry Baldwin; History Today, Vol. 48, May 1998
Subjects: Civilization, Greek--Influence, Marathon, Battle of, 490 B.C.--History
...accrued to him from his fathers triple Olympic chariot-racing victories, a feat otherwise accomplished only by the Spartan Evagoras. Despite this, an ex-tyrant was out of place in the new democratic atmosphere of Athens after Cleisthenes. Indeed, Miltiades...


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encyclopedia articles on: Evagoras  - 4 results

 
 
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Evagoras
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EVAGORAS ivag r s, d. c.374 b.c., despot...to exiled Athenians (notably Conon). Evagoras built a powerful fleet and with it harried...destroyed his fleet. Given easy peace terms, Evagoras kept at least nominal rule of the island...
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Persia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the importance of Cyrus revolt may be exaggerated it cannot be denied that there were signs of decay in the empire. Although Evagoras of Cyprus was brought to heel after the Peace of Antalcidas (386 b.c.; see Corinthian War ) was dictated to Greece by...
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Ctesias
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Artaxerxes II when he was wounded in the battle of Cunaxa (401 b.c.). In 398 he was sent by the Persians as envoy to Evagoras and Conon. Of Ctesias histories only Photius abridgments of Persica and Indica remain; in them Ctesias hoped to show Herodotus...
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Artaxerxes II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...marked the imposition of Persian control of the Greek city-states. The provinces of the empire eventually became restless. Evagoras made himself independent as a ruler of Cyprus but finally (c.381) submitted to the king. Pharnabazus and Iphicrates...


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