Alexander () was tagus or despot of Pherae in Thessaly, and ruled from 369 BC to 358 BC.

Diodorus Siculus tells us that upon the assassination of the tyrant Jason of Pherae, in 370 BC, his brother Polydorus ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander, another brother.

The states of Thessaly, which had previously acknowledged the authority of Jason of Pherae, were not so willing to submit to Alexander the tyrant, ( especially the old family of the Aleuadae of Larissa, who had most reason to fear him ).

Alexander withdrew to Pherae whilst the Macedonian King placed a garrison in Larissa, as well as in Crannon, which had also come over to him.

Alexander was then forced to restore the conquered towns to the Thessalians, confine himself to Pherae, join the Boeotian League, and become a dependent ally of Thebes.

If the death of Epaminondas in 362 BC freed Athens from fear of Thebes, it appears at the same time to have exposed it to further aggression from Alexander of Pherae, who made a piratical raid on Tinos and other cities of the Cyclades, plundering them, and making slaves of the inhabitants.

Thebe, Alexander's wife and cousin ( or half-sister, as the daughter of Jason of Pherae ), concealed her three brothers in the house during the day, had the dog removed when Alexander had gone to rest, and, having covered the steps of the ladder with wool, brought up the young men to her husband's chamber.

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* Alexander of Pherae despot of Pherae between 369 and 358 BC

* Alexander of Pherae, Despot of Pherae in Thessaly is murdered by his wife's brother at her instigation.

* Alexander of Pherae, Despot of Pherae in Thessaly, Greece

* Alexander of Pherae becomes tyrant of Thessaly following the death of his father.

* While the previous year's intervention by the Macedonians in Thessaly is successful, after the Macedonian troops withdraw, Alexander of Pherae treats his subjects as cruelly as before.

* The army of Thebes under their statesman and general, Pelopidas, defeats Alexander of Pherae in the Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly, but Pelopidas is killed during the battle.

As a result of his loss of this battle, Alexander is compelled by Thebes to acknowledge the freedom of the Thessalian cities, to limit his rule to Pherae, and to join the Boeotian League.

In 368, the Theban army marched into Thessaly to rescue Pelopidas and Ismenias, who had been imprisoned by Alexander of Pherae while serving as ambassadors.

In that same year, Pelopidas was killed while campaigning against Alexander of Pherae in Thessaly.

In 369, in response to a petition of the Thessalians, Pelopidas was sent with an army against Alexander of Pherae.

On his return through Thessaly he was seized by Alexander of Pherae, and two expeditions from Thebes were needed to secure his release.

In 364 BC he received another appeal from the Thessalian towns against Alexander of Pherae.

At the Battle of Cynoscephalae ( 364 BC ), the Theban forces of Pelopidas fought against the Thessalian troops of Alexander of Pherae in a drawn battle in which Pelopidas was killed.

Similar to Nazi Germany, the U. S. S. R. prepared its citizens for war by releasing dramas, such as Alexander Nevsky.

The name honors Alexander Kent, who acquired the then marshy plat and prepared it for development.

He prepared five different designs for the building terminating the eastern side of the square, but the Guards Corps building was awarded to Alexander Brullov.

A revised edition, prepared by Alexander Jones, is due to be published by Springer on November 29, 2010.

This fleet then prepared to head to St. Petersburg, but by this time the conspiracy had already assassinated Paul and Alexander made peace shortly after taking the throne.

Emperor Alexander I proclaimed a Patriotic War in response and prepared to face the French.

As well as composing prolifically, Dupré prepared study editions of the organ works of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann, César Franck, and Alexander Glazunov.

His advice to Russia's Tsar Alexander I was of utmost importance for the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Finland prepared to become increasingly autonomous.

Wycherley wrote verses, and, when quite an old man, prepared them for the press aided by Alexander Pope, then not much more than a boy.

The best edition of Akenside's Poetical Works is that prepared ( 1834 ) by Alexander Dyce for the Aldine Edition of the British Poets, and reprinted with small additions in subsequent issues of the series.

An important earlier edition was prepared by Alexander Dyce ( 1834 ) for the Aldine Edition of the British Poets, and reprinted with small additions in subsequent issues of the series.

In an interview with NRC Handelsblad on 1 July, Alexander Pechtold raised his suspicion that VVD and CDA had already for a long time been prepared to drop D66 from the coalition in favor of the support by Pim Fortuyn List ( LPF ).

In the mid-2nd century, those exposed by Lucian's sarcastic essay Alexander the false prophet prepared an archaeological " find " in Chalcedon to prepare a public for the supposed oracle they planned to establish at Abonoteichus in Paphlagonia ( Pearse, 2001 ):

Returning to the continent he followed the invitation of Tsar Alexander I to come to St. Petersburg, where he lived so briefly he never prepared a meal for the Tsar before returning to Paris, where he was chef to banker James Mayer Rothschild.

Julia was attentive to the education of her son, Alexander, who she prepared adequately for becoming emperor of Rome.

This was succeeded by a new edition of William Curtis's Flora Londinensis, for which he wrote the descriptions ( 1817-1828 ); by a description of the Plantae cryptogamicae of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland ; by the Muscologia, a very complete account of the mosses of Britain and Ireland, prepared in conjunction with Thomas Taylor ( 1818 ); and by his Musci exotici ( 2 vols., 1818-1820 ), devoted to new foreign mosses and other cryptogamic plants.

Its members studied esoteric subjects from lectures, plays and correspondence material prepared by George Alexander Sullivan.

Although Harding did not share Leese's view and 8th Army planning staff had already rejected the idea of an Adriatic offensive ( because it would be difficult to bring the necessary concentration of forces to bear ), Alexander was not prepared to force Leese to adopt a plan which was against his inclination and judgment and Harding was persuaded to change his mind.

Narodnaya Volya prepared seven assassination attempts on the life of Tsar Alexander II ( until they finally killed him ), and later on that of Alexander III.

On April 27, 1981, Droege and eight other men, including Canadian James Alexander McQuirter and American Don Black, who later founded the white nationalist website Stormfront, were arrested by federal agents in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat with automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, handguns, dynamite, ammunition, and a black and white Nazi flag.

Two days later, the Scottish general, Alexander Leslie, Lord Leven, joined the Fairfaxes and prepared to invest that city.

The monument was funded by public subscription, and an initial design was prepared by Alexander Nasmyth.

In 2009, Atlas began training Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin as Povetkin prepared for an eventual title match against Wladimir Klitschko.