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ETOLIKO (Town) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
1914 - 1988
1914 - 1988
AGRINIO (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
CHALKIOPOULI (Settlement) AMFILOCHIA
AMFILOCHIA (Municipality) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1793 - 1848
1790 - 1865
Οπλαρχηγός της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης και στρατιωτικός της οθωνικής
περιόδου. Πολέμησε στη Δυτική Στερεά
Ελλάδα. Στα χρόνια του ´Oθωνα εντάχτηκε στην Βασιλική Φάλαγγα. Μετά
την Eπανάσταση της 3ης Σεπτεμβρίου 1843 πολιτεύθηκε στο Βάλτο και εκλέχτηκε πληρεξούσιος
στην Α´ Εθνοσυνέλευση.Το 1854 πήρε μέρος στα λυτρωτικά κινήματα των υποδούλων
της Θεσσαλίας και της Ηπείρου.
Το κείμενο παρατίθεται τον Μάιο 2003 από την ακόλουθη ιστοσελίδα της Βουλής των Ελλήνων
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1751 - 1826
ELATOVRYSSI (Village) NAFPAKTOS
1908 - 1988
ETOLIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Agetas, commander-in-chief of the Aetolians in B. C. 217, made an incursion into Acarnania and Epirus, and ravaged both countries. (Polyb. v. 91. 96)
Alexamenus (Alexamenos), was general of the Aetolians, B. C. 196 (Polyb. xviii. 26), and was sent by the Aetolians, in B. C. 192, to obtain possession of Lacedaemon. He succeeded in his object, and killed Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedaemon; but the Lacedaemonians rising against him shortly after, he and most of his troops were killed. (Liv. xxxv. 34-36.)
Alexander (Alexandros), surnamed Isius, the chief commander of the Aetolians, was a man of considerable ability and eloquence for an Aetolian (Liv. xxxii. 33; Polyb. xvii. 3, &c.). In B. C. 198 he was present at a colloquy held at Nicaea on the Maliac gulf, and spoke against Philip III. of Macedonia, saying that the king ought to be compelled to quit Greece, and to restore to the Aetolians the towns which had formerly been subject to them. Philip, indignant at such a demand being made by an Aetolian, answered him in a speech from his ship (Liv. xxxii. 34). Soon after this meeting, he was sent as ambassador of the Aetolians to Rome, where, together with other envoys, he was to treat with the senate about peace, but at the same time to bring accusations against Philip (Polyb. xvii. 10). In B. C. 197, Alexander again took part in a meeting, at which T. Quinctius Flamininus with his allies and king Philip were present, and at which peace with Philip was discussed. Alexander dissuaded his friends from any peaceful arrangement with Philip (Polyb. xviii. 19, &c.; Appian, Maced. vii. 1). In B. C. 195, when a congress of all the Greek states that were allied with Rome was convoked by T. Quinctius Flamininus at Corinth, for the purpose of considering the war that was to be undertaken against Nabis, Alexander spoke against the Athenians, and also insinuated that the Romans were acting fraudulently towards Greece (Liv. xxxiv. 23). When in B. C. 189 M. Fulvius Nobilior, after his victory over Antiochus, was expected to march into Aetolia, the Aetolians sent envoys to Athens and Rhodes; and Alexander Isius, together with Phaneas and Lycopus, were sent to Rome to sue for peace. Alexander, now an old man, was at the head of the embassy; but he and his colleagues were made prisoners in Cephalenia by the Epeirots, for the purpose of extorting a heavy ransom. Alexander, however, although he was very wealthy, refused to pay it, and was accordingly kept in captivity for some days, after which he was liberated, at the command of the Romans, without any ransom (Polyb. xxii. 9).
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Archedemus. An Aetolian (called Archidamus by Livy), who commanded the Aetolian troops which assisted the Romans in their war with Philip. In B. C. 199 he compelled Philip to raise the siege of Thaumaci (Liv. xxxii. 4), and took an active part in the battle of Cynoscephalae, B. C. 197, in which Philip was defeated. (Polyb. xviii. 4.) When the war Broke out between the Romans and the Aetolians, he was sent as ambassador to the Achaeans to solicit their assistance, B. C. 192 (Liv. xxxv. 48); and on the defeat of Antiochus the Great in the following year, he went as ambassador to the consul M'. Acilius Glabrio to sue for peace. (Polyb. xx. 9.) In B. C. 169 he was denounced to the Romans by Lyciscus as one of their enemies. (Polyb. xxviii. 4.) he joined Perseus the same year, and accompanied the Macedonian King in his flight after his defeat in 168. (Liv. xliii. 23, 24, xliv. 43.)
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Ariston, a strategus of the Aetoliansin B. C. 221, who, labouring under some bodily defect, left the command of the troops to Scopas and Dorimachus, while he himself remained at home. Notwithstanding the declarations of the Achaeans to regard every one as an enemy who should trespass upon the territories of Messenia or Achaia, the Aetolian commanders invaded Peloponnesus, and Ariston was stupid enough, in the face of this fact, to assert that the Aetolians and Achaeans were at peace with each other. (Polyb. iv. 5, 9, 17)
Eupolemus. A general of the Aetolians, who defended Ambracia against the Roman army under M. Fulvius, B. C. 189. (Liv. xxxviii. 4-10.) When peace was granted to the Aetolians, he was carried off a prisoner to Rome, together with the Aetolian general-in-chief, Nicander. (Polyb. xxviii. 4.) It is not improbable that this was the same person with the preceding.
Euripidas or Euripides, an Aetolian, who, when his countrymen, with the help of Scerdilaidas the Illyrian, had gained possession of Cynaetha, in Arcadia (B. C. 220), was at first appointed governor of the town; but the Aetolians soon after set fire to it, fearing the arrival of the Macedonian succours for which Aratus had applied. In the next year, B. C. 219, being sent as general to the Eleans, then allied with Aetolia, he ravaged the lands of Dyme, Pharae, and Tritaea, defeated Miccus, the lieutenant-general of the Achaeans, and seized an ancient stronghold, named Teichos, near Cape Araxus, whence he infested the enemy's territory more effectually. In the winter of the same year he advanced from Psophis, in Arcadia, where he had his head-quarters, to invade Sicyonia, having with him a body of 2200 foot and 100 horse. During the night he passed the encampment of the Macedonians, in the Phliasian territory, without being aware of their vicinity; on discovering which from some foragers in the morning, he hastened back, hoping to pass them again, and to arrive at Psophis without an engagement; but, falling in with them in the passes of Mount Apelaurus, between Phlius and Stymphalus, he basely deserted his troops, and made his escape to Psophis, with a small number of horsemen, while almost all the Eleans were either cut to pieces by the Macedonians, or perished among the mountains. Philip then advanced on Psophis, and compelled it to capitulate, Euripidas being allowed to return in safety to Aetolia. In B. C. 217 we find him acting again as general of the Eleans, who had requested that he might be sent to supersede Pyrrhias. He ravaged Achaia in this campaign, but was pursued and defeated by Lycus, the lieutenant-general of the Achaeans. (Polyb. iv. 19, 59, 69-72, v. 94, 95.)
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Lyciscus. An Aetolian, a partisan of Rome, was made general of the Aetolians, in B. C. 171, through the influence of Q. Marcius and A. Atilius, two of the Roman commissioners sent to Greece in that year, (Liv. xlii. 38.) In B. C. 167, the Aetolians complained to Aemilius Paullus, then making a progress through Greece, that Lyciscus and Tisippus had caused 550 of their senators to be slain by Roman soldiers, lent them by Baebius for the purpose, while they had driven others into banishment and seized their property. But the murder and violence had been perpetrated against partisans of Perseus and opponents of Rome, and the Roman commissioners at Amphipolis decided that Lyciscus and Tisippus were justified in what they had done. Baebius only was condemned for having supplied Roman soldiers as the instruments of the murder. (Liv. xlv. 28, 31.)
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KALYDON (Ancient city) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
Damocritus, (Damokritos). Of Calydon in Aetolia, was strategus of the Aetolians
in B. C. 200, and in the discussions as to whether an alliance should be formed
with the Romans, Damocritus, who was believed to have been bribed by the Macedonian
king, opposed the party inclined to negotiate with Rome. The year after this he
was among the ambassadors of the various Greek states that went to Rome. In B.
C. 193 he was sent by the Aetolians to Nabis, the tyrant of Sparta, whom he urged
on to make war against the Romans. The year after, when T. Quinctius Flamininus
went himself to Aetolia, to make a last attempt to win them over, Damocritus not
only opposed him along with the majority of his countrymen, but insulted him by
saying that he would soon settle all disputes on the banks of the Tiber. But things
turned out differently from what he expected: in B. C. 191 the Aetolians were
defeated at Heracleia, near mount Oeta, and Damocritus fell into the hands of
the Romans. He and the other leaders of the Aetolians were escorted to Rome by
two cohorts, and he was imprisoned in the Lautumiae. A few days before the celebration
of the triumph, which he was intended to adorn, he escaped from his prison by
night, but finding that he could not escape the guards who pursued him, he threw
himself upon his own sword and thus put an end to his life. (Liv. xxxi. 32, xxxv.
12, 33, xxxvi. 24, xxxvii. 3, 46; Polyb. xvii. 10, xxii. 14; Appian, de Reb. Syr.
21; Brandstater, Die Gesch. des Aetol. Landes, &c.)
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TRICHONION (Ancient city) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
Alexander, of Trichonium in Aetolia, was commander of the Aetolians in B. C. 218
and 219. He attacked the rear of the army of Philip on his return from Thermus,
but the attempt was unsuccessful, and many Aetolians fell. (Polyb. v. 13)
AGRINIO (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1868 - 1920
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1876 - 1967
NAFPAKTOS (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1867 - 1945
TRICHONION (Ancient city) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
Dorimachus, (Dorimachos), less properly Dorymachus (Dorumachos), a native of Trichonium,
in Aetolia, and son of Nicostratus, was sent out, in B. C. 221, to Phigalea, on
the Messenian border, with which the Aetolians had a league of sympolity, ostensibly
to defend the place, but in reality to watch affairs in the Peloponnesus with
a view of fomenting a war, for which his restless countrymen were anxious. A number
of freebooters flocked together to him, and he connived at their plundering the
territory of the Messenians, with whom Aetolia was in alliance. All complaints
he received at first with neglect, and afterwards (when he had gone to Messene,
on pretence of investigating the matter) with insult. The Messenians, however,
and especially Sciron, one of their ephori, behaved with such spirit that Dorimachus
was compelled to yield, and to promise satisfaction for the injuries done; but
he had been treated with indignity, which he did not forget, and he resolved to
bring about a war with Messenia. This he was enabled to do through his kinsman
Scopas, who administered the Aetolian government at the time, and who, without
waiting for any decree of the Assembly, or for the sanction of the select council
(Apokletol; see Polyb. xx. 1; Liv. xxxv. 34), commenced hostilities, not against
Messenia only, but also against the Epeirots, Achaeans, Acarnanians, and Macedonians.
In the next year, B. C. 220, Dorimachus invaded the Peloponnesus with Scopas,
and defeated Aratus, at Caphyae. He took part also in the operations in which
the Aetolians were joined by Scerdilaidas, the Illyrian,--the capture and burning
of Cynaetha, in Arcadia, and the baffled attempt on Cleitor,--and he was one of
the leaders of the unsuccessful expedition against Aegeira in B. C. 219. In the
autumn of the same year, being chosen general of the Aetolians, he ravaged Epeirus,
and destroyed the temple at Dodona. In B. C. 218 he invaded Thessaly, in the hope
of drawing Philip away from the siege of Palus, in Cephallenia, which he was indeed
obliged to relinquish, in consequence of the treachery of Leontius, but he took
advantage of the absence of Dorimachus to make an incursion into Aetolia, advancing
to Thermum, the capital city, and plundering it. Dorimachus is mentioned by Livy
as one of the chiefs through whom M. Valerius Laevinus, in B. C. 211, concluded
a treaty of alliance with Aetolia against Philip, from whom he vainly attempted,
in B. C. 210, to save the town of Echinus, in Thessaly. In B. C. 204 he and Scopas
were appointed by the Aetolians to draw up new laws to meet the general distress,
occasioned by heavy debts, with which the two commissioners themselves were severely
burdened. In B. C. 196 Dorimachus was sent to Egypt to negotiate terms of peace
with Ptolemy V. (Epiphanes), his mission probably having reference to the conditions
of amity between Ptolemy and Antiochus the Great, to whom the Aetolians were now
looking for support against Rome. (Polyb. iv. 3-13, 16-19, 57,58, 67, 77; v. i.
3, 4-9. 11, 17; ix. 42; xiii. 1; xviii. 37; xx. 1; Fragm. Hist. 68; Liv. xxvi.
24; Brandstater, Gesch. des Aetol. Landes.)
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AMFILOCHIA (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
ETOLIKO (Town) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
1901 - 1982
KALLITHEA (Village) ETOLOAKARNANIA
16/04/1944
NAFPAKTOS (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1882 - 1966
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1788 - 1824
1859 - 1943
1869 - 1943
1886 - 1958
NAFPAKTOS (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1893 - 1987
NAFPAKTOS (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Carcinus, of Naupactus, is mentioned by Pausanias (x. 38.6) among the cyclic poets; and Charon of Lampsacus, before whose time Carcinus must have lived, attributed to him the epic poem Naupaktria, which all others ascribed to a Milesian poet.
PLEVRON (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Alexander Aetolus (Alexandros ho Aitolos), a Greek poet and grammarian, who lived in the reign of
Ptolemaeus Philadelphus. He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and a native
of Pleuron in Aetolia, but spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where
he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the tragic pleiad
(Suid. s. v.; Eudoc. p. 62; Paus. ii. 22.7; Schol. ad Hom. Il. xvi. 233). He had
an office in the library at Alexandria, and was commissioned by the king to make
a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant. He spent
some time, together with Antagoras and Aratus, at the court of Antigonus Gonatas.Notwithstanding
the distinction he enjoyed as a tragic poet, he appears to have had greater merit
as a writer of epic poems, elegies, epigrams, and cynaedi. Among his epic poems,
we possess the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the Fisherman (halieus,
Athen. vii.), Kirka or Krika (Athen. vii.), which, however, is designated by Athenaeus
as doubtful, and Helena. Of his elegies, some beautiful fragments are still extant.
His Cynaedi, or Ionika poiemata, are mentioned by Strabo (xiv.) and Athenaeus.
(xiv.). Some anapaestic verses in praise of Euripides are preserved in Gellius
(xv. 20).
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ASTAKOS (Small town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1792 - 1880
KALOUDI (Village) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1947
General Secretary of the Ministry of Development
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1788 - 1873
NAFPAKTOS (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1893 - 1987
NAFPAKTOS (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Asopius, son of Phormion, was, at the request of the Acarnanians who wished to have one of Phormion's family in the command, sent by the Athenians in the year following his father's naval victories, B. C. 428 (the 4th of the Peloponnesian war), with some ships to Naupactus. He fell shortly after in an unsuccessful attempt on the Leucadian coast. (Thuc. iii. 7.)
MESSOLONGI (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1867 - 1943
1867 - 1943
NAFPAKTOS (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Naupactian sculptors.
AKARNANIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Amphilytus (Amphilutos), a celebrated seer in the time of Peisistratus. Herodotus (i. 62) calls him an Acarnanian, but Plato (Theag.) and Clemens Alexandrinus (Strom. i.) speak of him as an Athenian. He may have been originally an Acarnanian, and perhaps received the franchise at Athens from Peisistratus. This supposition removes the necessity of Valckenaer's emendation.
ASTAKOS (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Evarchus, (Euarchos), tyrant of the Acarnanian town of Astacus in the first year of the Peloponnesian war, B. C. 431, was ejected by the Athenians in the summer and reinstated in the winter by the Corinthians. (Thuc. i. 30, 33.) Nothing is mentioned further either of him or of Astacus, but it is probable that the Athenian interest was soon restored. (Comp. i. 102.)
ELATOU (Village) NAFPAKTOS
1901 - 1941
Kostas Skaltsas was born in 1901 in Elatou. He finished the Greek School (Secondary
School) in Terpsithea. In 1919 he was enlisted in the Constabulary and after a
while was appointed Sergeant in Macedonia. He was married in Kavala and in 1930
was writing articles in the newspaper «Ethnos» of Athens.
He edited the books «History of Kavala», «Olympia» and «Epidavros». Afterwards
he came to Athens, where he became member of the Nafpaktian Association. When
the Great War began he went to the first line as a correspondent of «Ethnos».
He got sick because of the hardship and the energetic journalist and writer died
in 1941.
NAFPAKTOS (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
1896 - 1961
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