Timocrates

Family: Corinthian · Role: father of Timoxenus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 5

In Book 2, Section 6, Timocrates was the father of Timoxenus, who served in a force sent to restore him. In Book 2, Section 8, he was sent with Brasidas and Lycophron to Cnemus to urge the fleet to prepare for another battle; on arrival, they worked with Cnemus to organize ships and ready the fleet. In Book 3, Section 11, Aristotle is identified as Timocrates’ son.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Lacedaemonians sent three commissioners to order the fleet to prepare for another battle.(Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 3)
  • With: Brasidas Lycophron Cnemus
  • “The Lacedaemonians now sent to the fleet to Cnemus three commissioners—Timocrates, Bradidas, and Lycophron—with orders to prepare to engage again with better fortune”
• The commissioners and Cnemus ordered ships and readied the fleet for battle.(Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 3)
  • With: Brasidas Lycophron Cnemus
  • “As soon as they arrived they set to work with Cnemus to order ships from the different states, and to put those which they already had in fighting order.”

Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 5

• child: Timoxenus “In command of the force were Euphamidas, son of Aristonymus, Timoxenus, son of Timocrates, and Eumachus, son of Chrysis, who sailed over and restored him and, after failing in an attempt on some places on the Acarnanian coast which they were desirous of gaining, began their voyage home.”

Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 3

• with Cnemus (Sent as a commissioner to the fleet to work with Cnemus.) “The Lacedaemonians now sent to the fleet to Cnemus three commissioners—Timocrates, Bradidas, and Lycophron—with orders to prepare to engage again with better fortune, and not to be driven from the sea by a few vessels;”
• with Brasidas (Fellow commissioners.) “The Lacedaemonians now sent to the fleet to Cnemus three commissioners—Timocrates, Bradidas, and Lycophron—with orders to prepare to engage again with better fortune, and not to be driven from the sea by a few vessels;”
• with Lycophron (Fellow commissioners.) “The Lacedaemonians now sent to the fleet to Cnemus three commissioners—Timocrates, Bradidas, and Lycophron—with orders to prepare to engage again with better fortune, and not to be driven from the sea by a few vessels;”

Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 3

• child: Aristotle “under the command of Aristotle, son of Timocrates, and Hierophon, son of Antimnestus.”

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