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Aeschylus of Rhodes

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Aeschylus
NationalityGreek
OccupationInspector of Governors

Aeschylus (Ancient Greek: Αισχύλος) of Rhodes was appointed by Alexander the Great one of the inspectors of the governors of that country after its conquest in 332 BC.[1] He is not spoken of again until 319, when he is mentioned as conveying in four ships six hundred talents of silver from Cilicia to Macedonia, which were detained at Ephesus by Antigonus, in order to pay his foreign mercenaries.[2][3]

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  1. ^ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri iii. 5; comp. Curt. iv. 8
  2. ^ Diodorus Siculus, xviii. 52
  3. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Aeschylus (4)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 44

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Aeschylus (4)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.