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Lydiadas

d. 227 BCE · 3rd century BCE

Lydiadas was tyrant of Megalopolis in Arcadia in the third century BCE. In 235 BCE he laid down his power and brought the city into the Achaean League, where he was elected general several times and became a rival of Aratus of Sicyon. He was killed in 227 BCE fighting Cleomenes III of Sparta at Ladoceia.

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Megalopolis

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