Harpalus (disambiguation)
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Greek Antiquity

  • Harpalus
    Harpalus
    For other uses, see Harpalus Harpalus son of Machatas was an aristocrat of Macedon and boyhood friend of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. Being lame in a leg, and therefore exempt from military service, Harpalus did not follow Alexander in his advance within the Persian Empire but...

     courtier of Alexander the Great and embezzler of the Persian treasure.
  • Harpalus
    Harpalus (astronomer)
    Harpalus was an ancient Greek astronomer who corrected the cycle of Cleostratus and invented the Nine Year Cycle...

      astronomer of 5th-century BC
  • Harpalus
    Harpalus (engineer)
    Harpalus or Harpalos is a name reported by modern historical books as the engineer who built the pontoon bridge over the Hellespont for Xerxes in 480 BC...

     supposed engineer of Xerxes in the Hellespont
  • Harpalus
    Harpalus (son of Polemaeus)
    Harpalus son of Polemaeus from Beroea, was a Macedonian statesman, hieromnemon at Delphi and the chief of the ambassadors sent by Perseus to Rome in 172 BC, to answer the complaints of Eumenes II, king of Pergamon...

     statesman of Perseus of Macedon
  • Harpalus
    Harpalus (mythology)
    Harpalus in Greek mythology was son of Amyclas king of Laconia and father of Deritus, ancestor of Patreus, founder of Patras.-References:*Pausanias 7, 27...

     mythological character of Laconia

Science

  • Harpalus (genus)
    Harpalus (genus)
    Harpalus is a genus of carabid beetles with over 420 species and subspecies.-Species:Species include:* Harpalus actiosus Casey, 1914* Harpalus acupalpoides Reitter, 1900* Harpalus adenticulatus Huang, 1992...

     of carabid beetles
  • Harpalus (crater)
    Harpalus (crater)
    Harpalus is a young lunar impact crater that lies on the Mare Frigoris, at the eastern edge of the Sinus Roris. To the southeast at the edge of the mare is the small crater Foucault, and to the northwest on the opposite edge is the walled plain named South....

    on the moon
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