Sparta — Minor Figures

9 figures from Pausanias' Description of Greece who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Hipposthenes

wrestler · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 13

• Book 3 · Chapter 13 · child: Etœmocles “He and his father Hipposthenes won prizes for wrestling at Olympia”
• Book 3 · Chapter 15 · with Poseidon “whom they worship according to the oracle, as if they were awarding honours to Poseidon.”

Epiclidas

brother of Cleomenes · first appears Book 2 · Chapter 9

• Book 2 · Chapter 9 · siblings with Cleomenes (son of Leonidas) “vested the power of the Ephors in his brother Epiclidas”
• Book 2 · Chapter 9 · parent: Leonidas “And of Leonidas’s sons, Epiclidas was killed in battle”

Pharax

Spartan · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 3

• Book 6 · Chapter 3 · with Lysander “the Ephesians placed in the temple of Artemis statues of Lysander himself, and Eteonicus, and Pharax, and other Spartans of no great renown in Greece.”

Eurydamidas

king · first appears Book 2 · Chapter 9

• Book 3 · Chapter 10 · elder kin: Eudamidas “All about his son Agis, and his grandson Eurydamidas, I have already related in my account of Sicyonia.”
• Book 3 · Chapter 10 · parent: Agis (son of Eudamidas) “All about his son Agis, and his grandson Eurydamidas, I have already related in my account of Sicyonia.”

Archidamus (grandson of Leotychides)

king · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 7

• Book 3 · Chapter 7 · elder kin: Leotychides “his grandson Archidamus succeeded him”
• Book 3 · Chapter 7 · parent: Zeuxidamus (son of Leotychides) “as his son Zeuxidamus had previously died of some illness, his grandson Archidamus succeeded him, on his departure to Tegea”

Charta

sculptor · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 4

• Book 6 · Chapter 4 · pupil: Euchirus “This Euchirus was a Corinthian, and pupil of Syadra and Charta”

Syadra

sculptor · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 4

• Book 6 · Chapter 4 · pupil: Euchirus “This Euchirus was a Corinthian, and pupil of Syadra and Charta”

Euthys

father of Charmidas · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 2

• Book 3 · Chapter 2 · child: Charmidas “the Lacedæmonians sent to Crete Charmidas the son of Euthys”

Charmidas

Spartan leader · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 2

• Book 3 · Chapter 2 · parent: Euthys “the Lacedæmonians sent to Crete Charmidas the son of Euthys”

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