Thucles
Family: Athenian · Role: father of Eurymedon · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 5
At Corcyra, sixty Athenian vessels arrived from Leucas under Eurymedon, identified as “son of Thucles.”
Later, Thucles arrived at Naxos with Chalcidians from Euboea, founded the city, and built an altar to Apollo Archegetes outside it. In the fifth year after Syracuse was founded, he and the Chalcidians drove the Sicels out and founded Leontini and then Catana; the Catanians chose Evarchus as their founder.
Relationship record
Life events
- Eurymedon arrived with sixty Athenian vessels sent from Leucas.(Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 5 · 📍 Corcyra)
- With: Eurymedon
- “towards nightfall were informed by beacon signals of the approach of sixty Athenian vessels from Leucas, under the command of Eurymedon, son of Thucles”
- Thucles founded Naxos and built an altar to Apollo Archegetes.(Book 6 · Chapter 18 · Part 1 · 📍 Naxos)
- “They founded Naxos and built the altar to Apollo Archegetes, which now stands outside the town”
- Thucles and the Chalcidians drove out the Sicels and founded Leontini and Catana; the Catanians chose Evarchus as founder.(Book 6 · Chapter 18 · Part 1 · 📍 Leontini)
- With: Evarchus
- “Meanwhile Thucles and the Chalcidians set out from Naxos in the fifth year after the foundation of Syracuse, and drove out the Sicels by arms and founded Leontini and afterwards Catana; the Catanians themselves choosing Evarchus as their founder.”
Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 5
- child: Eurymedon “sixty Athenian vessels from Leucas, under the command of Eurymedon, son of Thucles”
Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 1
- child: Eurymedon “under the command of Hipponicus, son of Callias, and Eurymedon, son of Thucles.”
Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 5
- child: Eurymedon “Eurymedon, son of Thucles”
Book 6 · Chapter 18 · Part 1
- with naxos (Thucles is described as the founder of Naxos.) “The first to arrive were Chalcidians from Euboea with Thucles, their founder. They founded Naxos”
Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 3
- child: Eurymedon “Eurymedon, son of Thucles.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.