Diitrephes
Family: Athenian · Role: father of Nicostratus · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 4
Diitrephes was the father of Nicostratus, an Athenian general who arrived at Corcyra from Naupactus with ships and Messenian troops and persuaded the parties to agree to a settlement.
Later, Diitrephes was sent back with Thracians who had arrived too late for Demosthenes, with orders to use them if possible to harass the enemy along the coast. At Mycalessus, the Thracians took and sacked the town, killing its inhabitants; the Thebans then overtook them, recovered the plunder, and drove them toward the Euripus and the sea.
Relationship record
Life events
- Nicostratus arrived with Athenian ships and troops and persuaded the parties to agree to a settlement.(Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 4 · 📍 Corcyra)
- With: Nicostratus
- “The next day the Athenian general, Nicostratus, son of Diitrephes, came up from Naupactus with twelve ships and five hundred Messenian heavy infantry. He at once endeavoured to bring about a settlement, and persuaded the two parties to agree together to bring to trial ten of the ringleaders, who presently fled, while the rest were to live in peace, making terms with each other, and entering into a defensive and offensive alliance with the Athenians.”
- Diitrephes was sent back with the Thracians and ordered to harass the enemy along the coast.(Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 5)
- “they sent back at once the Thracians who came too late for Demosthenes, under the conduct of Diitrephes, who was instructed, as they were to pass through the Euripus, to make use of them if possible in the voyage alongshore to injure the enemy.”
- Diitrephes's Thracians took and sacked Mycalessus, massacring its inhabitants.(Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 5 · 📍 Mycalessus)
- “at daybreak assaulted and took the town, which is not a large one; the inhabitants being off their guard and not expecting that any one would ever come up so far from the sea to molest them, the wall too being weak, and in some places having tumbled down, while in others it had not been built to any height, and the gates also being left open through their feeling of security. The Thracians bursting into Mycalessus sacked the houses and temples, and butchered the inhabitants, sparing neither youth nor age, but killing all they fell in with, one after the other, children and women, and even beasts of burden, and whatever other living creatures they saw;”
- The Thebans overtook the Thracians, recovered the plunder, and drove them toward the sea.(Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 5 · 📍 the Euripus)
- “Meanwhile the Thebans heard of it and marched to the rescue, and overtaking the Thracians before they had gone far, recovered the plunder and drove them in panic to the Euripus and the sea, where the vessels which brought them were lying.”
Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 4
- child: Nicostratus “The next day the Athenian general, Nicostratus, son of Diitrephes, came up from Naupactus with twelve ships and five hundred Messenian heavy infantry.”
Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 7
- child: Nicostratus “Nicostratus, son of Diitrephes”
Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 9
- child: Nicostratus “under the command of Nicias, son of Niceratus, and Nicostratus, son of Diitrephes.”
Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 5
- with Demosthenes (Diitrephes led the Thracians who had originally been intended to sail with Demosthenes.) “Accordingly, not wishing to incur expense in their present want of money, they sent back at once the Thracians who came too late for Demosthenes, under the conduct of Diitrephes, who was instructed, as they were to pass through the Euripus, to make use of them if possible in the voyage alongshore to injure the enemy.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.