Polyanthes
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Corinthian commander of the Peloponnesian fleet at the battle off Erineus.
The commander of the fleet was Polyanthes, a Corinthian.
Hellenica
A leading Corinthian politician named as one of the recipients of Timocrates's Persian gold.
But now Tithraustes, who thought he had found out that Agesilaus despised the power of the King and did not in the least intend to depart from Asia, but rather had great hopes that he would overcome the King, being perplexed to know how to deal with the situation, sent Timocrates the Rhodian to Greece, giving him gold to the value of fifty talents of silver, and bade him undertake, on receipt of t …