Lichas

Family: Argos · Role: envoy · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4

At Argos, Lichas and Ampelidas applied to renew the treaty, but Argos refused. After the Argives later accepted the Lacedaemonians’ proposal for accommodation, they abandoned their league with the Mantineans, Eleans, and Athenians and allied with the Lacedaemonians. The material identifies Lichas as the son of Arcesilaus, a Lacedaemonian.

By the time the Peloponnesians were at Cnidus, a quarrel had arisen with Tissaphernes over the treaty of Therimenes. Lichas declared that they could not accept a convention making the King master of states formerly ruled by him or his fathers. Earlier, he had invited Tissaphernes to conclude a better treaty, saying they would not recognize the existing agreements or accept pay on those terms.

Relationship record

Life events

• Argos refused Ampelidas and Lichas’s application to renew the treaty.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Ampelidas
  • “Argos, who had refused the application of Ampelidas and Lichas for a renewal of the treaty”
• The Argives accepted the Lacedaemonian proposal for accommodation.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 9 · 📍 Argos)
  • “After much discussion, Alcibiades happening to be in the town, the Lacedaemonian party, who now ventured to act openly, persuaded the Argives to accept the proposal for accommodation”
• The Argives abandoned their league with the Mantineans, Eleans, and Athenians and allied with the Lacedaemonians.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 9)
  • “not long afterwards the same party contrived that the Argives should give up the league with the Mantineans, Eleans, and Athenians, and should make a treaty and alliance with the Lacedaemonians; which was consequently done”
• Tissaphernes and the Peloponnesians quarrelled over the treaty of Therimenes.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 2 · 📍 Cnidus)
  • With: Tissaphernes
  • “especially after his quarrel with the Peloponnesians at Cnidus about the treaty of Therimenes.”
• Lichas declared that the treaty making the King master of former territories was unacceptable.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 2)
  • “the original argument of Alcibiades touching the liberation of all the towns by the Lacedaemonians had been verified by the declaration of Lichas that it was impossible to submit to a convention which made the King master of all the states at any former time ruled by himself or by his fathers.”

Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4

• with Ampelidas (Made an application together) “Argos, who had refused the application of Ampelidas and Lichas for a renewal of the treaty”

Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 5

• parent: Arcesilaus “Lichas, son of Arcesilaus, a Lacedaemonian, had been scourged on the course”

Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 9

• parent: Arcesilaus “Lichas, son of Arcesilaus, the Argive proxenus”

Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 6

• parent: Arcesilaus “Lichas, son of Arcesilaus, being among the number.”
• with Tissaphernes (Lichas invited Tissaphernes to negotiate a new treaty.) “He therefore invited Tissaphernes to conclude another and a better treaty, as they certainly would not recognize those existing and did not want any of his pay upon such conditions.”

Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 2

• with Therimenes (The declaration by Lichas concerned the treaty of Therimenes.) “The quarrel had already taken place, as the Peloponnesians were by this time actually at Rhodes; and in it the original argument of Alcibiades touching the liberation of all the towns by the Lacedaemonians had been verified by the declaration of Lichas that it was impossible to submit to a convention which made the King master of all the states at any former time ruled by himself or by his fathers.”

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