Archidamus
Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: son of Agesilaus · First appears: Book 5, section 4, part 3/5
Archidamus, son of Agesilaus, was attached to Cleonymus, who remained faithful to his promise to Archidamus and died fighting alongside Deinon at Leuctra. Archidamus longed to see his friend but did not know how to visit him before speaking with his father. When Agesilaus was still disabled, Sparta assigned Archidamus command; he led the united armies to Corinth, dismissed the allies, and brought his fellow-citizens home.
Later, Archidamus sent assistance to Cissidas. At Sparta, he was wounded in the thigh while Polyaenidas and Chilon, his sister’s husband, died fighting in front of him. Facing Epaminondas, Archidamus led a counterattack with a hundred men, driving the opposing troops into flight; he marked the limit of his success with a trophy and returned the enemy dead under truce. On his right wing stood a sanctuary and statue of Heracles, described as his great ancestor.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cleonymus died fighting alongside Deinon, remaining faithful to his promise to Archidamus.(Book 5, section 4, part 3/5 · 📍 Leuctra)
- Because Agesilaus was disabled, the city assigned command to his son Archidamus.(Book 6, section 4, part 2/3)
- With: Agesilaus
- “Agesilaus being still disabled by his infirmity, the city imposed the duty of command upon his son Archidamus.”
- Archidamus led the united armies to Corinth, dismissed the allies, and led his fellow-citizens home.(Book 6, section 4, part 2/3 · 📍 Corinth)
- “At this point, then, Archidamus waited till all the allies had arrived, and so led the whole of the united armies back to Corinth, from which point he dismissed the allies and led his fellow-citizens home.”
- Archidamus led a counterattack that drove Epaminondas's troops into flight.(Book 7, section 5, part 1/2 · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Epaminondas
- “Archidamus, advancing at the head of but a hundred men, and crossing the one thing which might have been expected to form an obstacle to the enemy, began marching uphill against his antagonists. At this crisis these fire-breathing warriors, these victorious heroes of Leuctra, with their superiority at every point, aided, moreover, by the advantage of their position, did not withstand the attack of Archidamus and those with him, but swerved in flight.”
- Archidamus marked his victory with a trophy and returned the enemy dead under truce.(Book 7, section 5, part 1/2 · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Epaminondas
- “So then Archidamus set up a trophy to note the limit of his success, and gave back those who had there fallen of the enemy under a truce.”
Book 5, section 4, part 3/5
- parent: Agesilaus “To this youth Archidamus, the son of Agesilaus, was passionately attached.”
- courtship with Cleonymus “To this youth Archidamus, the son of Agesilaus, was passionately attached.”
- friends with Cleonymus “Archidamus, on his side, was longing, as was natural, to see his friend Cleonymus; but how he was to visit him, without having held the desired conversation with his father, he knew not.”
Book 6, section 4, part 2/3
- parent: Agesilaus “Agesilaus being still disabled by his infirmity, the city imposed the duty of command upon his son Archidamus.”
Book 7, section 1, part 3/4
- younger kin: Heracles “and it so happened that on his right wing there stood a sacred enclosure and a statue of Heracles, his great ancestor.”
- with Cissidas (Archidamus provided assistance to Cissidas.) “and was forced in these straits to send to Archidamus and beg for assistance, which the latter tendered.”
- with Heracles (Heracles is identified as Archidamus's great ancestor.) “on his right wing there stood a sacred enclosure and a statue of Heracles, his great ancestor.”
- with Demoteles (Archidamus sent Demoteles on a mission as herald.) “the Spartan at once despatched home Demoteles, the herald, with the news.”
Book 7, section 4, part 2/4
- with Chilon (Chilon was Archidamus's brother-in-law.) “Before long Archidamus had received a wound which pierced through his thigh, whilst death was busy with those who fought in front of him, Polyaenidas and Chilon, who was wedded to the sister of Archidamus, included.”
Book 7, section 5, part 1/2
- enemies with Epaminondas “Archidamus, advancing at the head of but a hundred men, and crossing the one thing which might have been expected to form an obstacle to the enemy, began marching uphill against his antagonists.”
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