Xenocrates
Family: Theban · Role: Boeotarch · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 32
In Book 4, Chapter 32, after an oracular response arrived, Epaminondas persuaded Xenocrates to retrieve Aristomenes’ shield and display it as a trophy where the Lacedæmonians could see it.
At Leuctra in Book 9, Chapter 13, Xenocrates and Epaminondas and Malgis favored engaging the Lacedæmonians without delay, while Damoclidas, Damophilus, and Simangelus opposed battle. When Bacchylides returned to camp and cast his deciding vote with Epaminondas, the Bœotarchs agreed to risk everything on a battle.
Relationship record
Life events
- Epaminondas persuaded Xenocrates to retrieve Aristomenes’ shield and display it as a trophy.(Book 4 · Chapter 32)
- With: Epaminondas Aristomenes
- “And on the arrival of this oracular response they say that Epaminondas prevailed with Xenocrates to send for the shield of Aristomenes, and he decked it out as a trophy in a place where it would be visible to the Lacedæmonians.”
- Bacchylides’s deciding vote committed the Bœotarchs to battle.(Book 9 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Leuctra)
- With: Epaminondas Malgis Damoclidas Damophilus Simangelus Bacchylides
- “the vote of the 7th Bœotarch on his return to the camp, (he had been on the look-out at Cithæron, and his name was Bacchylides), being given on the side of Epaminondas, it was agreed to stake everything on a battle.”
Book 4 · Chapter 32
- with Epaminondas (interaction) “Epaminondas prevailed with Xenocrates to send for the shield of Aristomenes”
- with Aristomenes (interaction) “Epaminondas prevailed with Xenocrates to send for the shield of Aristomenes”
Book 9 · Chapter 13
- with Epaminondas (shared position in the council of the Boeotarchs) “Epaminondas and Malgis and Xenocrates were for engaging the Lacedæmonians without delay”
- with Malgis (They jointly advocated immediate engagement.) “Epaminondas and Malgis and Xenocrates were for engaging the Lacedæmonians without delay”
- with Damoclidas (They opposed one another over whether to engage.) “But the Bœotarchs were not all of the same view, but differed in their opinions. Epaminondas and Malgis and Xenocrates were for engaging the Lacedæmonians without delay, whereas Damoclidas and Damophilus and Simangelus were against an engagement”
- with Damophilus (They opposed one another over whether to engage.) “But the Bœotarchs were not all of the same view, but differed in their opinions. Epaminondas and Malgis and Xenocrates were for engaging the Lacedæmonians without delay, whereas Damoclidas and Damophilus and Simangelus were against an engagement”
- with Simangelus (They opposed one another over whether to engage.) “But the Bœotarchs were not all of the same view, but differed in their opinions. Epaminondas and Malgis and Xenocrates were for engaging the Lacedæmonians without delay, whereas Damoclidas and Damophilus and Simangelus were against an engagement”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.