Menedaius

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: Spartan · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2

That summer, Menedaius, a Spartan, marched with the allied army against Naupactus under the command of Eurylochus, accompanied by Macarius. At Olpae, after Eurylochus and Macarius died, he succeeded them to sole command. The next day, facing defeat and uncertain how to hold his position or retreat safely, he parleyed with Demosthenes and the Acarnanian generals for a truce, permission to withdraw, and the recovery of the dead. Though retreat was publicly refused to the army, Demosthenes and his colleagues secretly granted it to Menedaius and the other commanders; Menedaius and the Peloponnesians escaped, while Acarnanians slew about two hundred Ambraciots who fled with them.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Aetolian embassy secured a Spartan-led allied army to march against Naupactus.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2 · 📍 Naupactus)
  • With: Tolophus Boriades Tisander Eurylochus Macarius
  • “The same summer the Aetolians, who before the Athenian expedition had sent an embassy to Corinth and Lacedaemon, composed of Tolophus, an Ophionian, Boriades, an Eurytanian, and Tisander, an Apodotian, obtained that an army should be sent them against Naupactus, which had invited the Athenian invasion. The Lacedaemonians accordingly sent off towards autumn three thousand heavy infantry of the allies, five hundred of whom were from Heraclea, the newly founded city in Trachis, under the command of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans.”
• Menedaius succeeded Eurylochus and Macarius to sole command.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4 · 📍 Olpae)
  • With: Eurylochus Macarius
  • “Menedaius, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command”
• Menedaius parleyed with Demosthenes and the Acarnanian generals for a truce and permission to retreat.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4 · 📍 Olpae)
  • With: Demosthenes
  • “opened a parley with Demosthenes and the Acarnanian generals for a truce and permission to retreat, and at the same time for the recovery of the dead.”
• Demosthenes secretly granted retreat to Menedaius and other commanders, though it was publicly refused to the army.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4 · 📍 Olpae)
  • With: Demosthenes
  • “The retreat demanded they refused publicly to the army; but permission to depart without delay was secretly granted to the Mantineans and to Menedaius and the other commanders and principal men of the Peloponnesians by Demosthenes and his Acarnanian colleagues”
• Menedaius and the Peloponnesians escaped, while Acarnanians slew about two hundred Ambraciots who fled with them.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4 · 📍 Olpae)
  • “Eventually, however, they let pass the Mantineans and Peloponnesians, and slew only the Ambraciots, there being much dispute and difficulty in distinguishing whether a man was an Ambraciot or a Peloponnesian. The number thus slain was about two hundred”

Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2

• with Eurylochus (Menedaius accompanied Eurylochus on the expedition.) “under the command of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans.”
• with Macarius (They served together on the expedition.) “under the command of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans.”

Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4

• with Eurylochus (Menedaius succeeded Eurylochus in command after his death.) “The next day Menedaius, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command, being at a loss after so signal a defeat how to stay and sustain a siege, cut off as he was by land and by the Athenian fleet by sea, and equally so how to retreat in safety, opened a parley with Demosthenes and the Acarnanian generals for a truce and permission to retreat, and at the same time for the recovery of the dead.”
• with Macarius (Menedaius succeeded Macarius in command after his death.) “The next day Menedaius, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command, being at a loss after so signal a defeat how to stay and sustain a siege, cut off as he was by land and by the Athenian fleet by sea, and equally so how to retreat in safety, opened a parley with Demosthenes and the Acarnanian generals for a truce and permission to retreat, and at the same time for the recovery of the dead.”
• with Demosthenes (Menedaius opened a parley with Demosthenes to negotiate a truce and retreat.) “The next day Menedaius, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command, being at a loss after so signal a defeat how to stay and sustain a siege, cut off as he was by land and by the Athenian fleet by sea, and equally so how to retreat in safety, opened a parley with Demosthenes and the Acarnanian generals for a truce and permission to retreat, and at the same time for the recovery of the dead.”

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