Alexander of Rhodes

For the 17th-century French missionary to Vietnam, see Alexander de Rhodes.

Alexander (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος) was a prominent Rhodian who lived in the 1st century BC.[1] In the war against Gaius Cassius Longinus he was at the head of the popular party, and was raised to the office of prytanis, in 43 BC.[2] But soon after, he and the Rhodian admiral, Mnaseas, were defeated by Cassius in a naval battle off Knidos.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexander". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 126.
  2. ↑ Appian, The Civil Wars iv. 66
  3. ↑ Appian, The Civil Wars iv. 71

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 

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