Pausanias ( el,
Παυσανίας) may refer to:
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Pausanias of Athens Pausanias (; grc-gre, Παυσανίας; fl. c. 420 BC) was an ancient Athenian of the deme Kerameis, who was the lover of the poet Agathon.
Although Pausanias is given a significant speaking part in Plato's '' Symposium'', very little is known ...
, 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 Persi ...
, 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)
Pausanias ( grc-gre, Παυσανίας) was the Agiad King of Sparta; the son of Pleistoanax. He ruled Sparta from 445 BC to 427 BC and again from 409 BC to 395 BC. He was the leader of the faction in Sparta that opposed the imperialist policy ...
, 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
Pausanias of Orestis ( grc, Παυσανίας ἐκ τῆς Ὀρεστίδος) was a member of Philip II of Macedon's personal bodyguard (''somatophylakes''). He assassinated Philip in 336 BC, possibly at the behest of Philip's wife Olym ...
, bodyguard who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC
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Pausanias (geographer), 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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