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View Name: Cleisthenes
CLEISTHENES
Gender:
Masculine
Usage:
Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Pronounced:
KLIES-thə-neez
(English)
[key]
Latinized form of the Greek name
Κλεισθενης
(Kleisthenes)
, derived from
κλεος
(kleos)
"glory" and
σθενος
(sthenos)
"strength". This was the name of a 5th-century BC Athenian statesman.
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