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	Olorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Olorus was the name of a king of Thrace.
		Olorus was also the name of the father of the 5th century BC Athenian historian Thucydides, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
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	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ol/Olorus.htm (73 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1111 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The two forms are easily confounded, and we assume the true name to be Olorus.
		39) mentions a Thracian king called Olorus, whose daughter Hegesipyle married Miltiades, the conqueror of Marathon, by whom she became the mother of Cimon.
		The ancient authorities speak of consanguinity between the family of Cimon and that of Thucydides, and the name of the father of Thucydides is some presumption of a connection with this Thracian king.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3445.html (1150 words)

	Herodotus
		His work won such approval that in the year 445 BC, on the proposition of a certain Anytus, he was voted a sum of ten talents (quite a large amount of money) by decree of the people.
		At one of the recitations, it was said, the future historian Thucydides was present with his father, Olorus, and was so moved that he burst into tears, whereupon Herodotus remarked to the father -- "Olorus, your son has a natural enthusiasm for letters."
		Athens was at this time the center of intellectual life, and could boast an almost unique galaxy of talent -- Pericles, Thucydides the son of Melesias, Aspasia, Antiphon, the musician Damon, Phidias, Protagoras, Zeno, Cratinus, Crates, Euripides and Sophocles.
	www.nndb.com /people/828/000087567 (2517 words)

	Perseus Lookup Tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The son of Miltiades and of Hegesipylé, the daughter of Olorus, a Thracian prince.
		Perhaps during this period Miltiades divorced the daughter of Hippias, who had become a political liability with that tyrant's fall in 510, and married the Thracian princess, Hegesipyle, daughter of Olorus; she was the mother of Cimon.
		The Thracian king Olorus’ daughter Hegesipyle married Miltiades, the victorious general at Marathon.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vor?target=en,1&collection=Any&lookup=Hegesipyle&formentry=1&template=&searchText=&alts=1&extern=1&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0002;2394;65535&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062;1576;13130675&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0039;923;817026&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0040;1139;1928164&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004;4048;5806160&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0048;918;124462&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0041;924;4501079&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0042;919;331721&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043;965;4817651&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0054;2031;2570557&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006;5253;9153903&group=work&.cgifields=alts&.cgifields=group&.cgifields=extern&.cgifields=type (132 words)

	Thucydides: Biography of Thucydides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born at Athens about 471 B.C. Is said to have been descended from Olorus, King of Thrace.
		At the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides received a command, but failed to relieve Amphipolis when besieged by Brasidas, and was banished (423 B.C.).
		After 20 years of exile, during which he is supposed to have written his "History of the Peloponnesian War," Thucydides returned to Athens about 403.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/T/Thucydides.html (67 words)

	Hobbes' Translation of Thucydides
		But Thucydides the writer of this history, an Athenian, of the town of Halimus, was the son of Olorus (or Orolus) and Hegesypele.
		His father's name is commonly written Olorus, though in the inscription on his tomb it was Orolus.
		Now Miltiades is confessed by all, to have descended from Olorus king of Thrace; whose daughter another Miltiades, grandfather to this, married and had children by.
	www.dailyrepublican.com /hobbes-thucydides.html (5198 words)

	THUCYDIDES: POLITICIAN, GENERAL, INTELLECTUAL, EXILE
		The (few) facts: Thucydides son of Olorus (4.104) and Hegesipyle of deme Halimous (life)
		Caught plague in 430 (2.48); elected general 424/3: Amphipolis expedition (4.104-108): failure, decided not to return to Athens; condemned to death by Athenian demos in absentia for treachery.
		Names of parents significant: Miltiades (father of Kimon) married the daughter of Thracian prince Olorus (Hdt.
	www.yorku.ca /uhistory/courses/2003-2004/2000/2100/november12.htm (250 words)

	HERODOTUS - LoveToKnow Article on HERODOTUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His work won such approval that in the year 445 B.C., on the proposition of a certain Anytus, he was voted a sum of ten talents (~24oo) by decree of the people.
		At one of the recitations, it was said, the future historian Thucydides was present with his father, Olorus, and was so moved that he burst into tears, whereupon Herodotus remarked to the father Olorus, your son has a natural enthusiasm for letters.4
		Accepted into this brilliant society, on familiar terms with all probably, as he certainly was with Olorus, Stein, Meyer, Busolt, and other recent writers attribute his departure from Halicarnassus to political causes, e.g the ascendancy of the anti-Athenian party in the state.
	66.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HERODOTUS.htm (3266 words)

	Arts - Literature: Herodotus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His work won such approval that in the year 445 B.C., on the proposition of a certain Anytus, he was voted a sum of ten talents (£2400) by decree of the people.
		At one of the recitations, it was said, the future historian Thucydides was present with his father, Olorus, and was so moved that he burst into tears, whereupon Herodotus remarked to the father-"Olorus, your son has a natural enthusiasm for letters".
		Athens was at this time the centre of intellectual life, and could boast an almost unique galaxy of talent - Pericles, Thucydides the son of Melesias, Aspasia, Antiphon, the musician Damon, Pheidias, Protagoras, Zeno, Cratinus, Crates, Euripides and Sophocles.
	www.archaeonia.com /arts/literature/herodotus.htm (1783 words)

	MILTIADES - LoveToKnow Article on MILTIADES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the death of Stesagoras, he was sent to the Chersonese (?about 518516) by Hippiasno doubt to support Hegesistratus at Sigeum (see PEISISTRATUS).
		He entrapped and imprisoned the chief men of Chersonesus, which was then in a turbulent condition, and strengthened himself by an alliance with Hegesipyle, daughter of the Thracian prince Olorus (Herod.
		He led a contingent in the Scythian expedition of Darius Hystaspis and, according to Herodotus, advised the leaders who were left at the Danube bridge to destroy it and leave Darius to his fate.
	74.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MILTIADES.htm (772 words)

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		507-449), Athenian statesman and general, was the son of Miltiades (q.v.) and Hegesipyle, daughter of the Thracian prince Olorus.
		Miltiades died in disgrace, leaving unpaid the fine imposed upon him for his conduct at Paros.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=15854 (1133 words)

	Hegesipyla
		Hegesipyle), daughter of Olorus, king of Thrace, and wife of Miltiades.
		A son of hers, named Olorus, after his grandfather, was the father of Thucydides the historian.
		In all probability, he was the fruit of a second marriage contracted by Hegesipyla after the death of Miltiades.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Hegesipyla.html (106 words)

	THUCYDIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thucydides is known for his significant text History of the Peloponnesian War, which unlike the storytelling style of other early historians, was straightforward, strictly chronological and direct.
		As the son of Olorus, an aristocratic Athenian, Thucydides most likely grew up near Thrace where his family owned a gold mine.
		When the war between Athens and Sparta broke out, he recognized its significance and planned to record its progress and final outcome.
	members.tripod.com /~michaelroth/bio178.htm (233 words)

	FictionPress.Com Story : Pocketing Salvation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Smoke was emitted from stack atop the small structure, a sure sign that Olorus, their boss, was up to something.
		“Belov’d goddess of Tekadin.” Olorus cried slapping his forehead as he named the goddess and protector of his hometown of Tekadin in the far north.
		Finally giving up she scowled, snatched the coins from Olorus’ hand and stomped her way down the street.
	www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=1794474 (2185 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1112 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His minute description of Syracuse and the neighbourhood leads to the probable conclusion that he was personally acquainted with the localities ; and if he visited Sicily, it is probable that he also saw some parts of southern Italy, and an anonymous biographer speaks of Thucydides having been at Sybaris.
		But it is rather too bold a conjecture to make, as some have done, that Olorus and his son Thucydides went out in the colony to Thurii, b.
		Thucydides says that he lived twenty years in exile (v.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3446.html (1094 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: Herodotus
		His work won such approval that in the year 445 B.C., on the proposition of a certain Anytus, he was voted a sum of ten talents (£2400) by decree of the people.
		At one of the recitations, it was said, the future historian Thucydides was present with his father, Olorus, and was so moved that he burst into tears, whereupon Herodotus remarked to the father-"Olorus, your son has a natural enthusiasm for letters."
		Athens was at this time the centre of intellectual life, and could boast an almost unique galaxy of talent-Pericles, Thucydides the son of Melesias, Aspasia, Antiphon, the musician Damon, Pheidias, Protagoras, Zeno, Cratinus, Crates, Euripides and Sophocles.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/eb11-herodotus.html (3186 words)

	Thucydides (460–399 Bce) \| Encyclopedia of Philosophy
		The reliable biographical details are few, and all derive from his own account.
		Thucydides son of Olorus was an Athenian, born around 460 BCE.
		In his analysis of the causes, symptoms, and consequences of the plague that devastated Athens a few years after the outbreak of hostilities with Sparta, Thucydides drew on his own experience of the illness.
	www.bookrags.com /research/thucydides-460399-bce-eoph (1056 words)

	On the Life and History of Thucydides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His father's name is commonly written Olorus, though in the in scription on his tomb it was Orolus.
		Howsoever it be written, it is the same that was borne by divers of the kings of Thrace; and irnposed on him with respect unto his descent from them.
		Now Miltiades is confessed by all, to have descended from Olorus king of Thrace; whose daughter another Miltiades, grandfather to this, married and had children by.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /Thucydides/Hobbes/HL.&H.Thuc.html (5276 words)

	Thucydides (460-400 BC); a short biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thucydides the son of Olorus was born probably about 460 BC and died about the year 400 BC.
		When the Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 B.C Thucydides probably took part in some of its early actions.
		When the various parts of the history were composed, which of these he revised, and whether their chronological inconsistencies are due to later editing - these questions are still unsolved.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /decline/thcydds.htm (194 words)

	Herodotus' Inquiries, Book 6: installment 32
		And the Chersonesians, when they were learning that by inquiry, were gathered together from all their cities, those who were dynasts from every place, and with a common expedition having come with the intention that they would join in being pained, they were bound by him.
		Miltiades indeed got a hold of the Chersonese and was maintaining five hundred auxiliaries, and he married Olorus the Thracians’ king’s daughter, Hegesipyle.
		Now, of that ship in fact the oldest of Miltiades’; children was ruler, Metiochus, who was not born of the daughter of Olorus the Thracian, but of another woman.
	www.losttrails.com /pages/Tales/Inquiries/Herodotus_32.html (3410 words)

	Read about Olorus at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Olorus and learn about Olorus here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Olorus was the name of a king of Thrace.
		Olorus was also the name of the father of the 5th century BC Athenian historian Thucydides, author of the
		The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Olorus (82 words)

	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 933
		However he himself escaped, with four of his vessels, and got into Imbrus, one trireme only falling into the hands of his pursuers.
		This vessel was under the command of his eldest son Metiochus, whose mother was not the daughter of the Thracian king Olorus, but a different woman.
		And when the Phoenicians found out that he was a son of Miltiades they resolved to convey him to the king, expecting thereby to rise high in the royal favour.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_933.htm (252 words)

	Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars, vol. 1 (Hobbes trans.) ToC: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His account of the 5th century BC struggle between Athens and Sparta is one of the first works of history to combine political and ethical reflections with history writing.
		Eight Books of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides the Son of Olorus, interpreted with Faith and Diligence immediately out of the Greek by Thomas Hobbes.
		Howsoever it be written, it is the same that was borne by divers of the kings of Thrace; and imposed on him with respect unto his descent from them.
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	Olorus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Olorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		His daughter Hegesipyle married the Athenian statesman and general Miltiades, who defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC Olorus was also the name of the father of the 5th century BC Athenian historian Thucydides, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
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	ClSt 200 - Tools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A corps of archers amongst the Athenians, formed of State slaves, who performed the duties of police and were also employed in war.
		The celebrated Greek historian, son of O1orus, an Athenian, probably descended from the Thracian prince Olorus, whose daughter Hegesippe was the wife of Miltiades and mother of Cimon.
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	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /cgi-bin/myth/dict/redir?method=standard®exp=Persian+Wars&setcard=25&link=0&media=1 (613 words)

	Kinship of Thucydides of ancient Greece with Daniel and Lalou Holdt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		All that we can know about Thucydides must be gleaned from the few things that he says about himself in his narrative.
		Thucydides' father, Olorus, was of Thracian descent and his family was among the Athenian nobility.
		The family owned gold mining property in Thrace, which helped to support Thucydides' historical endeavors after he was banished from Athens.
	www.american-pictures.com /genealogy/descent/Thucydides.htm (165 words)

	Miltiades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		En route for Chersonese he tried to annex the island of Lemnos for Athens, but the islanders just laughed at him and said they would voluntarily surrender if he ever sailed to Lemnos from home with a wind blowing from the north -- totally the wrong direction if he was coming from Athens(see footnote).
		The colony was such a success that Miltiades was able to marry Hegesipyle, the daughter of King Olorus of Thrace.
		When King Darius of Persia invaded Scythia, he left the bridge by which he crossed guarded by leaders from the Greek cities of Asia Minor.
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