Phocion (Greek Φωκίων, gen.: Φωκίωνος; also called Phokion; c. 402 BC – c. 318 BC; nicknamed The Good) was an Athenian statesman and strategos, and the subject of one of Plutarch`s Parallel Lives. Phocion was a successful politician of Athens. He believed that extreme frugality was the condition for virtue and lived in accord with....
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Athenian statesman and general, virtual ruler of Athens between 322 and 318. Formidable in the defense of his city, he nevertheless urged Athens to ...
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(c. 402-317 BC) Athenian general and statesman. An opponent of the orator Demosthenes, he advocated peace with Philip II of Macedon. Phocion was celebrated as an extempore orator. In 318, he was suspected of having...
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