Charoeades

Family: Athenian · Role: commander · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 6

At the close of the same summer, the Athenians sent Charoeades, son of Euphiletus, and Laches with twenty ships to Sicily, where the Syracusans and Leontines were at war. They established themselves at Rhegium and carried on the war with their allies. During the same summer, Charoeades was killed by the Syracusans in battle, leaving Laches in sole command of the fleet.

Relationship record

Life events

• Laches and Charoeades sailed with twenty Athenian ships to Sicily.(Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 6 · 📍 Sicily)
  • With: Laches
  • “At the close of the same summer the Athenians sent twenty ships under the command of Laches, son of Melanopus, and Charoeades, son of Euphiletus, to Sicily, where the Syracusans and Leontines were at war.”
• The Athenian commanders established themselves at Rhegium and began the war with their allies.(Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 6 · 📍 Rhegium)
  • With: Laches
  • “Accordingly they established themselves at Rhegium in Italy, and from thence carried on the war in concert with their allies.”
• Charoeades was killed by the Syracusans in battle, leaving Laches in sole command of the fleet.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 1 · 📍 Sicily)
  • With: Laches
  • “The death of the Athenian general Charoeades, killed by the Syracusans in battle, left Laches in the sole command of the fleet”

Book 3 · Chapter 10 · Part 6

• parent: Euphiletus “At the close of the same summer the Athenians sent twenty ships under the command of Laches, son of Melanopus, and Charoeades, son of Euphiletus, to Sicily, where the Syracusans and Leontines were at war.”
• with Laches (Joint commanders of the fleet.) “At the close of the same summer the Athenians sent twenty ships under the command of Laches, son of Melanopus, and Charoeades, son of Euphiletus, to Sicily, where the Syracusans and Leontines were at war.”

Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 1

• with Laches (Laches assumed sole command after Charoeades's death.) “The death of the Athenian general Charoeades, killed by the Syracusans in battle, left Laches in the sole command of the fleet”

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