Antander
Sign in to saveAntander ( - or Andro as he is called by the historian Orosius) was a man of Syracuse, Magna Graecia, of the 3rd and 4th centuries BCE. He was the older brother of Agathocles, king of Syracuse, and was a commander -- or strategos -- of the troops sent by the Syracusans to the relief of Crotona when it was besieged by the Bruttii tribe in 317.
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- date of birth
- 0350-00-00
- name in native language
- Ἄντανδρος
- date of death
- 0300-00-00
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Antander ( - or Andro as he is called by the historian Orosius) was a man of Syracuse, Magna Graecia, of the 3rd and 4th centuries BCE. He was the older brother of Agathocles, king of Syracuse, and was a commander -- or strategos -- of the troops sent by the Syracusans to the relief of Crotona when it was besieged by the Bruttii tribe in 317.
==Siege of Syracuse==
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