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Ptolemaic Generals: Scopas of Aetolia, Sosibius, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Nicolaus of Aetolia, Epaenetus, Myrmidon of Athens, Nicanor

Ptolemaic Generals: Scopas of Aetolia, Sosibius, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Nicolaus of Aetolia, Epaenetus, Myrmidon of Athens, Nicanor


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Chapters: Scopas of Aetolia, Sosibius, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Nicolaus of Aetolia, Epaenetus, Myrmidon of Athens, Nicanor, Echecrates of Thessaly, Sosibius of Tarentum, Simmias. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Scopas (Greek: ) was an Aetolian general, who served both his native Aetolian League in the Social War (220217 BC) and Ptolemaic Egypt against the Seleucids, with mixed success. He was executed in 196 BC at Alexandria for conspiring to seize the power of the realm for himself. At the period of the outbreak of the Social War (220217 BC), he held a leading position among his countrymen. He was a kinsman of Ariston, who at this time held the office of strategos in the Aetolian League, and the latter confided to him the chief conduct of affairs. On this account it was to Scopas that Dorimachus applied for assistance after the ill success of his predatory expedition against Messenia, and although no pretext had been given for involving the Aetolians in war, these two generals were bold enough to undertake the enterprise on their own account. Accordingly, in the spring of 220 BC they led an expedition against the Messenians, and not only ravaged the territories of the latter, but when Aratus himself at the head of the Achaean army had come to their support, totally defeated him at Caphyae and effected their retreat unmolested (Polybius IV. 5, 6, 9, 1013.) This daring outrage having naturally led to a public declaration of war by the Achaean League and their ally Philip V of Macedon against the Aetolians, the latter chose Scopas for their strategos during the ensuing year, and entrusted to him the conduct of the war which he had himself brought upon them. In the spring of 219 he invaded Macedonia with a large force, laid waste the open country of...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2475285


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157422778
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157422772
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Scopas of Aetolia, Sosibius, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Nicolaus of Aetolia, Epaenetus, Myrmidon of Athens, Nicanor
  • Width: 229 mm


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