Greek Leaders
Philopoemen
Last of the Greeks
Philopoemen was a Greek strategos active in the 3rd c. BC during the Hellenistic period based in Megalopolis. Died: poisoned.
Historical Note
Megalopolitan general called 'the last of the Greeks' by Plutarch. Eight times strategos of the Achaean League. Captured at 70 by Messenian rebels and forced to drink poison in a dungeon.