Diophanes

Family: Achæan League · Role: historical figure · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 30

Diophanes, son of Diæus, first organized the Peloponnese into what was called the Achæan League. Later, chosen as general of the Achæans, he marched against Lacedæmon alongside Titus Flaminius, the Roman commander in chief in Greece; Philopœmen, then a private individual, shut the gates as they were coming in.

Relationship record

Life events

• Diophanes first organized the Peloponnese into the Achæan League.(Book 8 · Chapter 30 · 📍 Peloponnese)
  • “that the effigy there was Diophanes the son of Diæus, who first ranged all the Peloponnese into what is called the Achæan League.”

Book 8 · Chapter 30

• parent: Diæus “And an elegiac couplet on one of the bases says that the effigy there was Diophanes the son of Diæus, who first ranged all the Peloponnese into what is called the Achæan League.”

Book 8 · Chapter 51

• parent: Diæus “Diophanes the son of Diæus of Megalopolis”
• with Titus Flaminius (They jointly led a military expedition against Lacedæmon.) “Titus Flaminius, the commander in chief of the Romans in Greece, and Diophanes the son of Diæus of Megalopolis, who had been chosen at this time general of the Achæans, marched against Lacedæmon”
• with Titus Flaminius (They marched together against Lacedæmon.) “Titus Flaminius, the commander in chief of the Romans in Greece, and Diophanes the son of Diæus of Megalopolis, who had been chosen at this time general of the Achæans, marched against Lacedæmon”
• with Philopœmen (Philopœmen opposed Diophanes's advance.) “but Philopœmen, although at present he was only a private individual, shut the gates as they were coming in”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.