Date
Name Epaminondas
Gender Masculine
Scripts Ἐπαμεινώνδας(Greek)
Other Forms FormsNoda, Nondas (short forms/diminutives)
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Meaning & History
Latinized form and modern Greek transcription of Epameinondas. This name was borne by a general and statesman of 4th-century BC Greece who transformed the ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent position in Greek politics. The name is still used in modern-day Greece.