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Eurymedon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (307 words) |
 | In the following summer, in joint command of the land forces, he ravaged the district of Tanagra; and in 425 he was appointed, with Sophocles, the son of Sostratides, to the command of an expedition destined for Sicily. |
| The terms of the pacification did not, however, satisfy the Athenians, who attributed its conclusion to bribery; two of the chief agents in the negotiations were banished, while Eurymedon was sentenced to pay a heavy fine. |
| In 414 Eurymedon, who had been sent with Demosthenes to reinforce the Athenians at the siege of Syracuse, was defeated and slain before reaching land (Thucydides iii., iv., vii.; Diodorus Siculus xiii. |
| Eurymedon River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (160 words) |
| Eurymedon is the name given by ancient geographers to the modern day Turkish river of Kopru su. |
| It was situated in Pamphylia and emptied into the Mediterranean. |
| Strabo records a lake he called Caprias near its mouth although the area is today a salt marsh. |
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