Pausanias ( el,
Παυσανίας) may refer to:
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Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium''
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Pausanias the Regent
Pausanias ( grc-gre, Παυσανίας; died c. 477 BC) was a Spartan regent and a general. In 479 BC, as a leader of the Hellenic League's combined land forces, Pausanias won a pivotal victory in the Battle of Plataea ending the Second Persian ...
, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
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Pausanias of Sicily
Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας; fl. 5th century BC) was a native of Sicily who belonged to the family of the Asclepiadae, and whose father's name was Anchitus. He was a physician, and an eromenos of the philosopher Empedocles, who dedicated t ...
, physician of the 5th century BC, who was a friend of Empedocles
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Pausanias (king of Sparta), King of Sparta from 408 to 395 BC
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Pausanias of Macedon
Pausanias of Macedon ( grc, Παυσανίας ὁ τῶν Μακεδόνων βασιλεύςHe likely would have been called or but this, "Pausanias the king of the Macedonians," is how Diodoros Siculus names him in ''Bibliotheca historica''14 ...
, King of Macedon from 399 to 393 BC
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Pausanias (pretender)
Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας), also known as Pausanias the Pretender, was an ancient Macedonian who claimed the right the Macedonian throne around 360–359 BCE after the death of king Perdiccas III of Macedon. He was one of at least three ...
, pretender to the throne of Macedon in the 360s BC
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Pausanias of Orestis, bodyguard who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC
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Pausanias (geographer)
Pausanias ( /pɔːˈseɪniəs/; grc-gre, Παυσανίας; c. 110 – c. 180) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his ''Description of Greece'' (, ), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece ...
, Greek traveller, geographer, and writer (''Description of Greece'') of the 2nd century AD
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Pausanias of Damascus
Pseudo-Scymnus is the name given by Augustus Meineke to the unknown author of a work on geography written in Classical Greek, the ''Periodos to Nicomedes''. It is an account of the world (''periegesis'') in 'comic' iambic trimeters which is dedicat ...
, Greek historian of the last quarter of the 2nd century BC
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Pafsanias Katsotas
Pafsanias Katsotas ( el, Παυσανίας Κατσώτας, 1896 – 14 February 1991) was a Hellenic Army general and politician.
Biography
Katsotas was born in the village of Stamna in Aetolia-Acarnania in 1896. He graduated from the Hel ...
(1896-1991), Greek general and mayor of Athens
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