Thibron (mercenary commander, died 322 BC)
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Thibron (mercenary commander, died 322 BC)
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Thibron was a Lacedaemonian who was a confidential officer of Harpalus, the Macedonian satrap of Babylon under Alexander the Great. According to one account it was Thibron who murdered Harpalus in Crete, in 324 BC. He then possessed himself of his late master's treasures, fleet, and army, and, ostensibly espousing the cause of some Cyrenaean exiles, sailed to Cyrene with the intention of subjugating it. He defeated the Cyrenaeans in a battle, obtained possession of their harbour, Apollonia, toge
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Spartan mercenary commander
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2023-04-03T19:58:47Z
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