Menophanes

Family: Mithridates' forces · Role: general · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 23

Life events

Menophanes massacres, robs, enslaves, and razes Delos, possibly acting under Mithridates’ orders.(Book 3 · Chapter 23 · 📍 Delos)
- With: Mithridates
- “Menophanes a General of Mithridates, either of his own insolence or obeying the orders of Mithridates, (for to a man looking only to lucre divine things come after gain), seeing that Delos had no fortifications and that the inhabitants were unarmed, sailed to it and slew all the resident aliens, and the Delians also, and robbed the merchants of much money, and carried off all the votive offerings, and also enslaved the women and children, and razed Delos to the ground.”
Menophanes’s vessel is sunk by merchants who escaped the sack of Delos.(Book 3 · Chapter 23)
- “Menophanes, when he put to sea again after laying Delos waste, was lain in wait for by the merchants who had escaped, and his vessel sunk”

with Mithridates (Menophanes was a general serving under Mithridates.) “Menophanes a General of Mithridates, either of his own insolence or obeying the orders of Mithridates,”
with Mithridates (Mithridates was Menophanes's commander.) “Menophanes a General of Mithridates, either of his own insolence or obeying the orders of Mithridates”

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