Listed 9 sub titles with search on: Biographies for wider area of: "FTHIOTIDA Prefecture GREECE" .
DYO VOUNA (Village) GORGOPOTAMOS
1798 - 1880
Son of Ioannis Dyovouniotis, who participated in the Greek Revolution of 1821.
1757 - 1831
TRACHIS (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Ephialtes. A Malian, who, in B. C. 480, when Leonidas was defending the pass of Thermopylae, guided the body of Persians called the Immortals over the mountain path (the Anopaea), and thus enabled them to fall on the rear of the Greeks. Fearing after this the vengeance of the Spartans, he fled into Thessaly, and a price was set on his head by the Amphictyonic council. He ultimately returned to his country, and was put to death by one Athenades, a Trachinian, for some cause unconnected with his treason, but not further mentioned by Herodotus. (Her. vii. 213, &c.; Paus. i. 4; Strab. i.; Polyaen. vii. 15.)
LOKRIS (Ancient country) FTHIOTIDA
Acrion a Locrian, was a Pythagorean philosopher. (Cic. de Fin. v. 29.) He is mentioned by Valerius Maximus (viii. 7, ext. 3, from this passage of Cicero) under the name of Arion, which is a false reading, instead of Acrion.
Axiopistus (Axopiostos), a Locrian or Sicyonian, was the author of a poem entitled Kanon kai Tnomai, which was commonly ascribed to Epicharmus. (Athen. xiv.)
Charilaus (Charilaos), a Locrian, and a dramatic poet. Whether he wrote tragedies or comedies is uncertain, nor is anything further known of him than that plays of his were represented at Athens in B. C. 328.
OPOUS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
Bacchylides of Opus, a poet, whom Plato, the comic poet (about B. C. 400), attacked in his play entitled the Sophists. (Suidas, s. v. Sophistes.)
THERMOPYLES (Historic place) LAMIA
P. Sembronius Gracchus, (a Roman) was tribune of the people in B. C. 189; and in conjunction with his colleague, C. Sempronius Rutilus, he brought an accusation against M'. Acilius Glabrio, the conqueror of Antiochus, charging him with having appropriated to himself a part of the money and booty taken from the king at Thermopylae. Cato also spoke against Glabrio on that occasion. (Liv. xxxvii. 57; Fest. s. v. penatores)
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