Æchmis

First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 5

In Book 8, Chapter 5, Æchmis, son of Briacas and nephew of Polymestor, succeeded Polymestor, who had no children. Æchmis was the father of Aristocrates, who later acted insolently toward his fellow-countrymen; the Arcadians fought alongside Aristodemus, king of Messenia.

Relationship record

Book 8 · Chapter 5

• elder kin: Polymestor (uncle and nephew) “And as Polymestor had no children Æchmis succeeded, the son of Briacas, and nephew of Polymestor.”
• parent: Briacas “Æchmis succeeded, the son of Briacas, and nephew of Polymestor.”
• child: Aristocrates (grandfather) “And Aristocrates, the son of Æchmis, acted insolently to his fellow-countrymen in various ways”
• with Polymestor (Æchmis succeeded Polymestor as king and was his nephew.) “And as Polymestor had no children Æchmis succeeded, the son of Briacas, and nephew of Polymestor.”
• with Aristodemus (king of Messenia) (interaction) “the Arcadians had always had a kindly feeling towards the Messenians, and now they openly fought against the Lacedæmonians in conjunction with Aristodemus king of Messenia. And Aristocrates, the son of Æchmis”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.