Earlier Æthidas

Family: Messenean · Role: general · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 32

Life events

• Demetrius and his army secretly entered Messene while Earlier Æthidas commanded its defenders.(Book 4 · Chapter 32 · 📍 Messene)
  • With: Demetrius (son of Philip) Philip (son of Demetrius)
  • “And this earlier Æthidas was they say the General of the Messenians, when Demetrius the son of Philip and his army stole into the town by night when they little expected it.”

Book 4 · Chapter 32

• with Æthidas (interaction) “some say it is not that Æthidas who has a statue on the pillar, but a namesake and ancestor.”
• younger kin: Æthidas “None of the people of Messene deny that Æthidas was wealthy, but some say it is not that Æthidas who has a statue on the pillar, but a namesake and ancestor. And this earlier Æthidas was they say the General of the Messenians”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.