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Aeantides (Ancient Greek : Αἰαντίδης) is the name of several people in Classical antiquity:

Classical antiquity Age of the ancient Greeks and the Romans

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References

  1. ↑ Thucydides, vi. 59
  2. ↑ Schol. ad Hephaest, p. 32, 93, ed. Paw.
  3. ↑ Smith, William (1867), "Aeantides (1) and (2)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , 1, Boston, p. 23

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