Archias (elder)

Also known as: Archias · Family: Spartan · Role: Lacedemonian · First appears: Book 3 · §51–57

Life events

• Archias and Lycopas entered Samos with the fleeing Samians and were killed inside the city.(Book 3 · §51–57 · 📍 Samos)
  • With: Lycopas
  • “Archias and Lycopas alone rushed within the wall together with the flying Samians, and being shut off from retreat were slain within the city of the Samians.”

Book 3 · §51–57

• child: Samios (The final Archias in the quote is the elder Archias.) “another Archias the son of Samios the son of Archias”
• with Archias (younger) (Archias (younger) is the third in descent from Archias (elder).) “I myself moreover had converse in Pitane (for to that deme he belonged) with the third in descent from this Archias, another Archias the son of Samios the son of Archias, who honoured the Samians of all strangers most;”
• with Lycopas (They fought together and were slain within the city.) “Now if the Lacedemonians there present had all been equal on that day to Archias and Lycopas, Samos would have been captured; for Archias and Lycopas alone rushed within the wall together with the flying Samians, and being shut off from retreat were slain within the city of the Samians.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.