Phanomachus

Family: Athenian · Role: general · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 5

During the same winter at Potidæa, Phanomachus, son of Callimachus, served as one of the Athenian generals alongside Xenophon and Hestiodorus. The generals accepted Potidæa’s proposals to capitulate and granted its people terms for passage out. Afterwards, the Athenians blamed the generals for agreeing to terms without instructions from home.

Relationship record

Life events

• The generals accepted Potidæa’s proposals to capitulate and granted terms for passage out.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 5 · 📍 Potidæa)
  • With: Xenophon Hestiodorus
  • “In this extremity they at last made proposals for capitulating to the Athenian generals in command against them—Xenophon, son of Euripides, Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus, son of Callimachus. The generals accepted their proposals, seeing the sufferings of the army in so exposed a position; besides which the state had already spent two thousand talents upon the siege. The terms of the capitulation were as follows: a free passage out for themselves, their children, wives and auxiliaries, with one garment apiece, the women with two, and a fixed sum of money for their journey.”
• The Athenians blamed the generals for granting capitulation terms without instructions from home.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 5 · 📍 Potidæa)
  • With: Xenophon Hestiodorus
  • “The Athenians, however, blamed the generals for granting terms without instructions from home, being of opinion that the place would have had to surrender at discretion.”

Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 5

• parent: Callimachus “Xenophon, son of Euripides, Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus, son of Callimachus.”
• with Xenophon (Served together as generals in command against the Potidæans.) “the Athenian generals in command against them—Xenophon, son of Euripides, Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus, son of Callimachus.”
• with Hestiodorus (Served together as generals in command against the Potidæans.) “the Athenian generals in command against them—Xenophon, son of Euripides, Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus, son of Callimachus.”

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