Persæus
Family: Macedonian · Role: head of the garrison · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 8
Persæus, a Macedonian, had been put in command of the garrison at Corinth by Antigonus. In Book 2, Chapter 8, Aratus the son of Clinias attacked the garrison, killed many of its men, including Persæus, and freed Corinth. Persæus had been a disciple of Zeno. In Book 7, Chapter 8, the account recalls that Aratus the son of Clinias and the Sicyonians drove the garrison from Corinth’s citadel and killed him.
Relationship record
Life events
- Aratus defeated the Macedonian garrison, killed Persæus, and freed Corinth.(Book 2 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Corinth)
- With: Aratus the son of Clinias Antigonus (regent for Philip)
- “And although Antigonus held Corinth with a Macedonian garrison, he dismayed them by the suddenness of his attack, and in a battle defeated and killed many of them, and among others Persæus the head of the garrison, who had been a disciple of Zeno (the son of Mnaseas) in philosophy. And when Aratus had set Corinth free,”
- Aratus and the Sicyonians expelled Corinth’s garrison and killed Persæus.(Book 7 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Corinth)
- With: Aratus the son of Clinias Antigonus
- “when Aratus and the Sicyonians drove out the garrison from the citadel of Corinth and slew Persæus, who had been put in command of the garrison by Antigonus.”
Book 2 · Chapter 8
- mentor: Zeno “who had been a disciple of Zeno (the son of Mnaseas) in philosophy”
- with Aratus the son of Clinias (interaction) “and in a battle defeated and killed many of them, and among others Persæus the head of the garrison”
Book 7 · Chapter 8
- enemies with Aratus the son of Clinias (Aratus participated in the attack in which Persæus was slain.) “when Aratus and the Sicyonians drove out the garrison from the citadel of Corinth and slew Persæus”
- with Antigonus (king of Macedon) (Antigonus appointed Persæus commander of the garrison.) “Persæus, who had been put in command of the garrison by Antigonus”
- with Aratus the son of Clinias (Aratus participated in killing Persæus.) “when Aratus and the Sicyonians drove out the garrison from the citadel of Corinth and slew Persæus, who had been put in command of the garrison by Antigonus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.