- Abantidas
Abantidas (in Greek Aβαντιδας), the son of
Paseas , became tyrant of the ancient Greekcity-state ofSicyon after murderingCleinias , the father ofAratus , 264 BC.rf|1|plut_2_paus_2.8 He either banished or put to death his friends and relations; Aratus, who was then only seven years old, narrowly escaped death by fleeing into the house of Soso, the sister of the tyrant.rf|2|plut_2 Abantidas was fond of literature, and was accustomed to attending the philosophical discussions ofDeinias andAristotle , thedialectician , in theagora of Sicyon: on one of these occasions, with the complicity of the two rhetors, he was murdered by his enemies (251 BC). He was succeeded in the tyranny by his father, who was put to death byNicocles .rf|3|plut_3References
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Plutarch , [http://www.attalus.org/old/aratus1.html "Life of Aratus"] , John & William Langhorne (translators), (1770)
* Smith, William (ed.); "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology ", [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0010.html "Abantidas"] ,Boston , (1867)Notes
ent|1|plut_2_paus_2.8 Plutarch, [http://www.attalus.org/old/aratus1.html 2] ; Pausanias, "Description of Greece", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+2.8.1 ii. 8] ent|2|plut_2 Plutarch, [http://www.attalus.org/old/aratus1.html 2] ent|3|plut_3 Ibid., [http://www.attalus.org/old/aratus1.html 3]
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