Pherae
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In Thessaly Alexander of Pherae became hostile and after several successes even attacked the Peiraeus.
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Greece had produced personal rulers of ability, or even of genius; but to the greatest of these, to Peisistratus, to Dionysius, even to Jason of Pherae, there clung the fatal taint of illegitimacy.
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Three such officers, Lycophron, Jason and Alexander, all of Pherae, endeavoured vainly to administer the collective affairs of the federation, the last by means of a revived republican council.
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Returning to Thessaly next year at the head of an army he procured the liberation of Pelopidas from the tyrant Alexander of Pherae without striking a blow.
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ADMETUS, King of Pherae, was com� peting with other royal suitors for the hand of Pelias' daughter Alcestis.
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