Philocharidas
Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: envoy · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 7
At Lacedaemon, during the one-year armistice concluded with Athens and its allies, Philocharidas is identified as “son of Eryxidaidas.”
In Book 5, after the Lacedaemonians freed their prisoners, they sent Philocharidas, Ischagoras and Menas as envoys toward Thrace to order Clearidas to hand Amphipolis over to the Athenians. At the same time, Philocharidas arrived from Lacedaemon with Leon and Endius in an embassy described as reputed well disposed towards the Athenians, amid concern that Athens might ally with the Argives.
Relationship record
Life events
- Lacedaemon, Athens, and their allies concluded the one-year armistice and took oaths.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 7 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- With: Taurus Athenaeus Aeneas Euphamidas Damotimus Onasimus Nicasus Menecrates Amphias Nicostratus Nicias Autocles
- “On these terms the Lacedaemonians concluded with the Athenians and their allies on the twelfth day of the Spartan month Gerastius; the allies also taking the oaths.”
- The Lacedaemonians freed their prisoners of war and sent envoys to order the handover of Amphipolis.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4)
- With: Ischagoras Menas
- “immediately set free all the prisoners of war in their possession, and sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to the towns in the direction of Thrace, to order Clearidas to hand over Amphipolis to the Athenians”
- The Lacedaemonians and Athenians made a treaty, with oaths to be renewed annually.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4)
- With: Ischagoras Menas
- “This treaty was made in the spring, just at the end of winter, directly after the city festival of Dionysus”
- The Lacedaemonians formed an alliance with the Athenians after the other allies refused the treaty.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- With: Ischagoras Menas
- “Accordingly, after conference with the Athenian ambassadors, an alliance was agreed upon and oaths were exchanged, upon the terms following:”
Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 7
- parent: Eryxidaidas “Philocharidas, son of Eryxidaidas”
Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4
- with Ischagoras (Co-envoys) “sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to the towns in the direction of Thrace”
- with Menas (Co-envoys) “sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to the towns in the direction of Thrace”
- with Clearidas (Philocharidas was sent as an envoy to deliver the order to Clearidas.) “sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to the towns in the direction of Thrace, to order Clearidas to hand over Amphipolis to the Athenians”
Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 4
- with Leon the Lacedaemonian envoy (Colleagues in the same embassy.) “At the same time arrived in haste from Lacedaemon an embassy consisting of persons reputed well disposed towards the Athenians—Philocharidas, Leon, and Endius—for fear that the Athenians in their irritation might conclude alliance with the Argives”
- with Endius (Colleagues in the same embassy.) “At the same time arrived in haste from Lacedaemon an embassy consisting of persons reputed well disposed towards the Athenians—Philocharidas, Leon, and Endius—for fear that the Athenians in their irritation might conclude alliance with the Argives”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.