Xenophon's Hellenica

Argive — Minor Figures

3 figures from Hellenica who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Cleostratus

ambassador · first appears Book 1, section 3

  • Book 1, section 3 · with Pharnabazus “The representatives of Athens were Dorotheus, Philodices, Theogenes, Euryptolemus, and Mantitheus; with them were two Argives, Cleostratus and Pyrrholochus. An embassy of the Lacedaemonians was also about to make the journey. This consisted of Pasippidas and his fellows, with whom were Hermocrates, now an exile from Syracuse, and his brother Proxenus. So Pharnabazus put himself at their head.”

Pyrrholochus

ambassador · first appears Book 1, section 3

  • Book 1, section 3 · with Pharnabazus “The representatives of Athens were Dorotheus, Philodices, Theogenes, Euryptolemus, and Mantitheus; with them were two Argives, Cleostratus and Pyrrholochus. An embassy of the Lacedaemonians was also about to make the journey. This consisted of Pasippidas and his fellows, with whom were Hermocrates, now an exile from Syracuse, and his brother Proxenus. So Pharnabazus put himself at their head.”

Cylon

recipient of gifts · first appears Book 3, section 5, part 1/2

  • Book 3, section 5, part 1/2 · with Timocrates the Rhodian “In Thebes he gave gifts to Androcleidas, Ismenias, and Galaxidorus; in Corinth to Timolaus and Polyanthes; in Argos to Cylon and his party.”

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