Hestiodorus

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

Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, was an Athenian general who served alongside Xenophon and Phanomachus. At Potidæa, the three generals accepted the city’s proposals to capitulate and granted its people free passage out with specified provisions. Afterwards, the Athenians blamed them 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 Phanomachus
  • “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 Phanomachus
  • “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: Aristocleides “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 Phanomachus (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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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.