Lacedæmonian — Minor Figures
8 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.
Xenarches
pancratiast and horse-breeder · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 2
- Book 6 · Chapter 2 · parent: Philandridas “Xenarches was his name and he was the son of Philandridas.”
- Book 6 · Chapter 2 · with Lysippus “And the statue of the pancratiast next is by Lysippus.”
Polemarchus
nobleman · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 3
- Book 3 · Chapter 3 · with Polydorus (son of Alcamenes) “he was murdered by Polemarchus a man of no mean family in Lacedæmon, but hotheaded, as indeed he shewed by this murder.”
Aristodemus (regent for Agesipolis)
regent · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 5
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ward: Agesipolis (son of Pausanias) “Aristodemus the next of kin was appointed Regent”
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ward: Cleombrotus (son of Pausanias) “Aristodemus the next of kin was appointed Regent”
Chionis
athlete · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 14
- Book 3 · Chapter 14 · with Battus “Chionis also took part they say with Theræan Battus in founding Cyrene, and in ejecting the neighbouring Libyans”
- Book 6 · Chapter 13 · with Myro “They are still more simple who think that the statue on the pillar is by Chionis, seeing it is by the Athenian Myro.”
Plistoanax
king · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 5
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · parent: Pausanias (hero of Platæa) “Plistoanax the son of Pausanias, the hero of Platæa, succeeded him”
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · child: Pausanias (son of Plistoanax) “And Plistoanax was succeeded by his son Pausanias.”
Eurycrates (son of Anaxander)
king · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 3
- Book 3 · Chapter 3 · parent: Anaxander “And Anaxander had a son Eurycrates”
- Book 3 · Chapter 3 · child: Leo “and this second Eurycrates a son Leo.”
Hecas
seer · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 16
- Book 4 · Chapter 16 · with Hecas (ancestor) “the Lacedæmonian seer being Hecas, the descendant and namesake of that Hecas who had come to Sparta with the sons of Aristodemus”
- Book 4 · Chapter 16 · elder kin: Hecas (ancestor) “the Lacedæmonian seer being Hecas, the descendant and namesake of that Hecas who had come to Sparta with the sons of Aristodemus”
Pausanias (hero of Platæa)
father of Plistoanax · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 5
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · child: Plistoanax “Plistoanax the son of Pausanias, the hero of Platæa, succeeded him”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.