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Epaminondas
History; World history

(c.420-362 BC) General and leader of Thebes in the 370s BC. His victory at Leuctra in 371 broke Sparta and made Thebes the leading Greek city-state, but it collapsed with his ...

Ephesus
History; World history

Important Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor whose earlier remains include a great temple to its patron goddess Artemis (c.600 BC). It flourished in Hellenistic times and was ...

Ephthalite ('White') Huns
History; World history

Group of central Asian peoples of uncertain origin, but probably from the eastern steppes. They conquered the eastern provinces of the Sasanian empire in the AD 480s and in the ...

Epicuros
History; World history

Greek philosopher (341-270 BC) who believed that the search for pleasure is the true purpose of life. By 'pleasure' Epicuros meant peace of mind through friendship and ...

Epipaleolithic
History; World history

Period in the post-glacial period prior to the adoption of agriculture, in which hunter-gatherer societies - including cultures in the Levant (such as the Natufians) and north ...

Epirus
History; World history

An area of northwestern Greece known from early times for its oracle to Apollo at Dodona. Gradually Hellenized by Greek colonies on the coast, the area was united into a single ...

Eratosthenes
History; World history

Greek intellectual and scholar (c.285-194 BC) who was chief librarian at the famous library in Alexandria. Remembered as a poet, historian, literary critic, philosopher, ...

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