Menas

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: oath-taker and envoy · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4

Immediately after the Lacedaemonians freed their prisoners of war, Menas was sent with Ischagoras and Philocharidas as an envoy to order Clearidas to hand over Amphipolis to the Athenians. In the spring, at the end of winter, the Lacedaemonians and Athenians made a treaty with oaths to be renewed annually; later at Lacedaemon, after the other allies refused the treaty, they agreed on an alliance with the Athenians and exchanged oaths.

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Life events

• The Lacedaemonians freed their prisoners of war and sent envoys to order the handover of Amphipolis.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4)
  • With: Ischagoras Philocharidas
  • “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 Philocharidas
  • “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 Philocharidas
  • “Accordingly, after conference with the Athenian ambassadors, an alliance was agreed upon and oaths were exchanged, upon the terms following:”

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 Philocharidas (Co-envoys) “sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to the towns in the direction of Thrace”
• with Clearidas (Menas 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”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.