Aratus of Sicyon was a politician and military commander of Hellenistic Greece. He was elected strategos of the Achaean League 17 times, leading the League through numerous military campaigns including the Cleomenean War and the Social War.
Sicyon's theatre, built by Aratus' father
Coin of Antigonus Gonatas, king of Macedon
The hill on which the Acrocorinth stood
Late 17th-century print: Aratus in combat
Strategos, plural strategoi, Latinized strategus, is used in Greek to mean military general. In the Hellenistic world and the Eastern Roman Empire the term was also used to describe a military governor. In the modern Hellenic Army, it is the highest officer rank.
Bust of Pericles, statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens; Hadrianic Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of c. 400 BC