biography
pronunciation:
[polikrateez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (6th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Tyrant of Samos (540–522 BC). One of the earliest of Greek tyrants, he turned Samos into a major naval power, the ally of Egypt, Cyrene, and later Persia, and made her the cultural centre of the E Aegean. Among the poets who enjoyed his patronage was Anacreon. |
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