Podares
Family: Mantineans · Role: hero · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 9
In Book 8, Chapter 9, an earlier Podares fell in battle against Epaminondas and the Thebans. By Chapter 10, his great-grandson Podares was in command as the Mantineans and Arcadians defeated the Lacedæmonians at Mantinea by surrounding them.
Relationship record
Life events
- Podares fell in battle against Epaminondas and the Thebans.(Book 8 · Chapter 9)
- With: Epaminondas
- “who they say fell in the battle against Epaminondas and the Thebans.”
- The Mantineans and Arcadians defeated the Lacedæmonians by surrounding them.(Book 8 · Chapter 10 · 📍 Mantinea)
- With: Thrasybulus Aratus the son of Clinias Lydiades Leocydes Agis (son of Eudamidas)
- “centre. And Aratus according to preconcerted arrangement with the Arcadians fell back (he and his army) when the Lacedæmonians pressed them hard, and as they fell back they formed the shape of a crescent. And Agis and the Lacedæmonians were keen for victory, and en masse pressed fiercely on Aratus and his division. And they were followed by the Lacedæmonians on the wings, who thought it would be a great stepping stone to victory to rout Aratus and his division. But the Arcadians meanwhile stole upon their flanks, and the Lacedæmonians being surrounded lost most of their men, and their king Agis the son of Eudamidas fell. And the Mantineans said that Poseidon appeared helping”
Book 8 · Chapter 9
- with Epaminondas (Podares and Epaminondas were opposing combatants in a battle.) “who they say fell in the battle against Epaminondas and the Thebans.”
Book 8 · Chapter 10
- with Podares (earlier warrior) (The commander Podares is identified as the great-grandson of an earlier warrior named Podares.) “under the command of Podares, the great grandson of that Podares who had fought against the Thebans”
- with Podares (earlier warrior) (Podares is the great-grandson of the earlier Podares.) “under the command of Podares, the great grandson of that Podares who had fought against the Thebans.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.