Epaminondas: Quick Facts


Facts

Born c.410 BCE • Thebes • ancient Greece
Died 362 BCE • Mantineia • ancient Greece
Founder Megalopolis
Role In Battle of Leuctra

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Pelopidas
Theban statesman
Pyrrhus
Pyrrhus
king of Epirus
Detail from Charles Le Brun's painting showing Alexander the Great in profile, wearing a gold helmet with white plumes and a blue cloak, with soldiers in the background.
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Mongolian warrior-ruler
Philip II
Philip II
king of Macedonia
Bust of Vespasian, found at Ostia; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Vespasian
Roman emperor
Trajan
Trajan
Roman emperor
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Mehmed II
Ottoman sultan
Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire
Antiochus III the Great
Seleucid king
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
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Maḥmūd
king of Ghazna
Shaka
Shaka
Zulu chief
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Bayezid II
Ottoman sultan
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Köprülü Mehmed Paşa
Ottoman grand vizier
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Dionysius I
ruler of Syracuse
Taksin
Taksin
king of Siam
Selim I
Selim I
Ottoman sultan
Agesilaus II; Pharnabazus
Agesilaus II
king of Sparta
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Lysander
Greek military leader