Menander

Family: Athenian · Role: officer · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 3

At Athens, Menander and Euthydemus were appointed colleagues to Nicias after the Athenians refused his resignation, sharing command until the new colleagues arrived. At Epipolae, Menander joined Demosthenes and Eurymedon in a night advance on the fort at Euryelus, which they captured, killing part of its garrison. Later, Menander, Demosthenes and Euthydemus took command aboard ship and sailed to the harbour barrier, trying to force a way out.

Relationship record

Life events

• Athens refused Nicias’s resignation and appointed colleagues to share command.(Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 3 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Nicias Euthydemus Demosthenes Eurymedon
  • “When the Athenians had heard it they refused to accept his resignation, but chose him two colleagues, naming Menander and Euthydemus, two of the officers at the seat of war, to fill their places until their arrival”
• Demosthenes, Eurymedon, Menander, and the army captured the fort at Euryelus and killed part of its garrison.(Book 7 · Chapter 22 · Part 1 · 📍 Epipolae)
  • With: Demosthenes Eurymedon
  • “Having come up by the hill of Euryelus (where the former army had ascended at first) unobserved by the enemy’s guards, they went up to the fort which the Syracusans had there, and took it, and put to the sword part of the garrison.”
• The Athenian commanders sailed to the harbour barrier and tried to force a passage out.(Book 7 · Chapter 23 · Part 4)
  • With: Demosthenes Euthydemus
  • “Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, who took the command on board, put out from their own camp and sailed straight to the barrier across the mouth of the harbour and to the passage left open, to try to force their way out.”

Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 3

• with Nicias (Named as a colleague of Nicias.) “chose him two colleagues, naming Menander and Euthydemus, two of the officers at the seat of war, to fill their places until their arrival”
• with Nicias (Menander was appointed as a colleague to Nicias.) “When the Athenians had heard it they refused to accept his resignation, but chose him two colleagues, naming Menander and Euthydemus, two of the officers at the seat of war, to fill their places until their arrival, that Nicias might not be left alone in his sickness to bear the whole weight of affairs.”

Book 7 · Chapter 22 · Part 1

• with Demosthenes (They set out together on the expedition.) “he ordered provisions for five days, took all the masons and carpenters, and other things, such as arrows, and everything else that they could want for the work of fortification if successful, and, after the first watch, set out with Eurymedon and Menander and the whole army for Epipolae, Nicias being left behind in the lines.”
• with Eurymedon (They set out together on the expedition.) “he ordered provisions for five days, took all the masons and carpenters, and other things, such as arrows, and everything else that they could want for the work of fortification if successful, and, after the first watch, set out with Eurymedon and Menander and the whole army for Epipolae, Nicias being left behind in the lines.”

Book 7 · Chapter 23 · Part 4

• with Demosthenes (Jointly took command aboard.) “while Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, who took the command on board, put out from their own camp and sailed straight to the barrier across the mouth of the harbour and to the passage left open, to try to force their way out.”
• with Euthydemus (Jointly took command aboard.) “while Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, who took the command on board, put out from their own camp and sailed straight to the barrier across the mouth of the harbour and to the passage left open, to try to force their way out.”
• with Euthydemus (Shared command aboard the Athenian ships.) “while Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, who took the command on board, put out from their own camp and sailed straight to the barrier across the mouth of the harbour and to the passage left open, to try to force their way out.”

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