Melon
Family: Thebans · Role: exile · First appears: Book 5, section 4, part 1/5
While in Athens as an exile, Melon met his former acquaintance Phyllidas, and the two exchanged pledges and arranged a plot against the Theban rulers. After an interval, Melon returned to Thebes with six fellow-exiles. That night, he and his companions killed the polemarchs, including Archias; they then armed released prisoners and called the Thebans to arms at the Ampheion. In the ensuing events, Theban cavalry killed more than twenty Plataeans approaching as reinforcements. Later, the two generals who had been involved in Melon’s insurrection against Leontiades and his party suffered.
Relationship record
Life events
- Phyllidas and Melon exchanged pledges and arranged a plot against the Theban rulers.(Book 5, section 4, part 1/5 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Phyllidas
- “It only remained to exchange pledges, and to arrange the details of what was to be done.”
- Melon returned to Thebes with six fellow-exiles to carry out the plot.(Book 5, section 4, part 1/5 · 📍 Thebes)
- “After a certain interval Melon, accompanied by six of the trustiest comrades he could find among his fellow-exiles, set off for Thebes.”
- Melon and his companions killed the polemarchs, including Archias.(Book 5, section 4, part 1/5 · 📍 Thebes)
- The conspirators armed the released prisoners and called the Thebans to arms, announcing the tyrants' deaths.(Book 5, section 4, part 1/5 · 📍 the Ampheion)
- With: Phyllidas
- “These they speedily supplied with arms taken from the armoury in the stoa, and then led them to the Ampheion, and bade them take up a position there, after which they at once made a proclamation calling on all Thebans to come out, horse and foot, seeing that the tyrants were dead.”
- The Theban cavalry killed more than twenty Plataeans who were approaching as reinforcements.(Book 5, section 4, part 1/5)
- “The approach of the Plataeans was perceived by the Theban cavalry, who met them and killed a score of them and more”
Book 5, section 4, part 1/5
- with Phyllidas (They were former acquaintances.) “A visit to Athens in pursuance of some business brought this man into contact with a former acquaintance of his, Melon, one of the exiles who had fled for safety to Athens.”
- with Charon (Charon hosted Melon and the unnamed exiles.) “Having got safely within the city, they spent the whole of that night at the house of a man named Charon, and again the next day in the same fashion.”
Book 5, section 4, part 2/5
- enemies with Leontiades (Melon led an insurrection against Leontiades and his party.) “the two generals who had been privy to the insurrection of Melon against Leontiades and his party had to suffer”
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