Hagnon

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

In the same summer as Pericles’s expedition, Hagnon, son of Nicias, and Cleopompus led an expedition against the Chalcidians and besieged Potidæa, but failed to capture it. Hagnon returned to Athens after about forty days, having lost 1,050 of his 4,000 heavy infantry to the plague.

Twenty-nine years later, Hagnon was sent out as leader of the colony that drove out the Edonians and founded Amphipolis. Afterward, the Amphipolitans made Brasidas their founder and removed Hagnon’s memorials. Much later, Theramenes, Hagnon’s son, was among those who organized opposition to the oligarchic administration at Athens.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hagnon and Cleopompus led an expedition against the Chalcidians and besieged Potidæa, but failed to capture it.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 2 · 📍 Potidæa)
  • With: Cleopompus
  • “The same summer Hagnon, son of Nicias, and Cleopompus, son of Clinias, the colleagues of Pericles, took the armament of which he had lately made use, and went off upon an expedition against the Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace and Potidæa, which was still under siege.”
• Hagnon returned to Athens after losing 1,050 of his 4,000 heavy infantry to the plague.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 2 · 📍 Athens)
  • “The end of it was that Hagnon returned with his ships to Athens, having lost one thousand and fifty out of four thousand heavy infantry in about forty days”
• Hagnon drove out the Edonians and founded Amphipolis.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 5 · 📍 Amphipolis)
  • “Twenty-nine years after, the Athenians returned (Hagnon, son of Nicias, being sent out as leader of the colony) and drove out the Edonians, and founded a town on the spot, formerly called Ennea Hodoi or Nine Ways.”
• The Amphipolitans made Brasidas their founder and removed Hagnon's memorials.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 2 · 📍 Amphipolis)
  • With: Brasidas
  • “They constituted him the founder of their colony, and pulled down the Hagnonic erections, and obliterated everything that could be interpreted as a memorial of his having founded the place”
• Theramenes, Aristocrates, and others organized opposition to the oligarchic administration.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Theramenes Aristocrates Scellias
  • “These now banded together and strongly criticized the administration, their leaders being some of the principal generals and men in office under the oligarchy, such as Theramenes, son of Hagnon, Aristocrates, son of Scellias, and others;”
• The malcontents demanded that the Five Thousand exist in reality and that the constitution be fairer.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Theramenes Aristocrates Scellias
  • “yet urged that the Five Thousand must be shown to exist not merely in name but in reality, and the constitution placed upon a fairer basis.”

Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 2

• with Pericles (Colleagues) “The same summer Hagnon, son of Nicias, and Cleopompus, son of Clinias, the colleagues of Pericles, took the armament of which he had lately made use, and went off upon an expedition against the Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace and Potidæa, which was still under siege.”
• parent: Nicias, father of Hagnon “The same summer Hagnon, son of Nicias, and Cleopompus, son of Clinias, the colleagues of Pericles, took the armament of which he had lately made use, and went off upon an expedition against the Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace and Potidæa, which was still under siege.”

Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 5

• parent: Nicias, father of Hagnon “Hagnon, son of Nicias, being sent out as leader of the colony”

Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 2

• with Brasidas (Brasidas was honored as Amphipolis’s preserver and founder in place of Hagnon.) “They constituted him the founder of their colony, and pulled down the Hagnonic erections, and obliterated everything that could be interpreted as a memorial of his having founded the place; for they considered that Brasidas had been their preserver, and courting as they did the alliance of Lacedaemon for fear of Athens, in their present hostile relations with the latter they could no longer with the same advantage or satisfaction pay Hagnon his honours.”

Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 5

• child: Theramenes “Theramenes, son of Hagnon, was also one of the foremost of the subverters of the democracy—a man as able in council as in debate.”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 2

• child: Theramenes “their leaders being some of the principal generals and men in office under the oligarchy, such as Theramenes, son of Hagnon, Aristocrates, son of Scellias, and others”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.