Chæreas
Family: Sicyon · Role: boy-boxer · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 3
In Book 6, Chapter 3, Chæreas is described as a boy-boxer from Sicyon, whose father was Chæremon. An inscription records that his statue was by Asterion, son of Æschylus.
In Book 9, Chapter 13, Cleombrotus turned aside to Ambrosus in Phocis while passing toward Leuctra and killed Chæreas, who had been ordered to guard the by-roads, along with the men with him.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cleombrotus’s forces killed Chæreas while passing toward Leuctra.(Book 9 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Ambrosus in Phocis)
- With: Cleombrotus (successor of Agesipolis)
- “after slaying Chæreas, who had been ordered to guard the by-roads, and the men who were with him,”
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- parent: Chæremon “There is an inscription also over Chæreas of Sicyon a boy-boxer, stating that his father was Chæremon”
- with Asterion (son of Æschylus) (Asterion made Chæreas's statue.) “The inscription also states that the statue was by Asterion, the son of Æschylus.”
- with Asterion (son of Æschylus) (Asterion made Chæreas's statue.) “the statue was by Asterion, the son of Æschylus.”
Book 9 · Chapter 13
- with Cleombrotus (Cleombrotus killed Chæreas) “but Cleombrotus the king of the Lacedæmonians turned aside to Ambrosus in Phocis, and after slaying Chæreas, who had been ordered to guard the by-roads, and the men who were with him”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.