Athenion (rebel)
Athenion is a personal name used in ancient Greece. In history it may refer to: * Athenion of Maroneia, 4th-century BC Thracian painter * Athenion (general), 1st-century BC commander employed by Cleopatra * Athenion, a peripatetic philosopher and failed revolutionary often confused with Aristion * Athenion (rebel), leader in the Second Servile War The Second Servile War was an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic on the island of Sicily. The war lasted from 104 BC until 100 BC. Background The Consul Gaius Marius was recruiting soldiers for the war against the Cimbri and ...

Athenion Of Maroneia
Athenion of Maroneia (Ancient Greek: Ἀθηνίων Μαρωνίτης) was an ancient Greek painter, born at Maroneia in Thrace who flourished during the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC. He was a pupil of Glaucion of Corinth, and a contemporary probably of Nicias, whom he resembled and excelled, though his style was harsher. He gave promise of the highest excellence in his art, but died young. Works *''Αχιλλεύς ως κόρη'' (Achilles, disguised as a Girl, discovered by Odysseus) *''Συγγενικόν'' (An Assembly of Relatives) *''Νεανίας Iπποκόμος'' (Α Groom with a Horse) *''Φύλαρχος''Phylarch References *Natural History (Pliny) xxxv.134Art Encyclopedia
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Athenion (general)
Athenion was a military commander of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra in Coele-Syria in the late 30s BC. Life Athenion is only known through the report given by the Jewish historian Josephus on Herod the Great. But the account of Josephus is very hostile to Cleopatra and reflects in this connection the negative reporting of the memoirs of the Jewish king on the Ptolemaic queen, which found their way via Nicolaus of Damascus into the historic works of Josephus. Therefore, Josephus’ unreliable reporting on Cleopatra has to be evaluated carefully. When in 32 BC the preparations for the final war between Mark Antony and Octavian were beginning Herod wanted to come to Antony's rescue with an army, but was sent back by Antony to fight against Malichus, king of the Nabataeans, instead. According to Josephus Cleopatra is said to have been responsible for this decision of the triumvir, but the German classical scholar Christoph Schäfer does not believe that this is true. After Herod had ...
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Aristion
Aristion (died 1 March 86 BC in Athens) was a philosopher who became tyrant of Athens from c. 88 BC until his death in 86 BC. Aristion joined forces with king Mithridates VI of Pontus against Greece's overlords, the Romans, fighting alongside Pontic forces during the First Mithridatic War, but to no avail. On 1 March 86 BC, after a long and destructive siege, Athens was taken by the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla who had Aristion executed. Life Aristion's early history is preserved by Athenaeus, on the authority of Posidonius. Posidonius calls him Athenion and makes him a Peripatetic philosopher, whereas others, Pausanias, Appian, and Plutarch, call him Aristion, and Appian calls him an Epicurean philosopher. There is no universally accepted resolution to this confusion, and it is possible that there were two separate tyrants who held power in Athens in quick succession during the First Mithridatic War whose stories became conflated together. This is the most commonly accep ...
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