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Thrasybulus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (560 words) |
 | 388 BC) was an Athenian general and one of the key leaders of the democracy against the oligarchy during and after the Peloponnesian War. |
| The navy employed mostly poorer citizens and included many of the most ardent supporters of the democracy, and under Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus these declared their opposition to the revolutionaries, believing themselves to be in as good a position as the men of the city. |
| In 389 BC, Thrasybulus was sent out with 40 ships, ultimately to help Rhodes maintain her independence but first to levy money from her allies and to plunder when they could not receive it. |
| Encyclopedia4U - Philolaus - Encyclopedia Article (933 words) |
| Philolaus (circa 480 BC - circa 405 BC), was a Greek mathematician and philosopher. |
| He lived around 475 BC and he was in Croton during the persecution of the Pythagoreans. |
| His idea was restored and resumed around 345 BC by Heraclides of Heraclea (circa 388 BC-310 BC). |
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