Chares

Family: Athens · Role: general · First appears: Phocion

Life events

• The Athenians appointed Phocion to relieve their confederates, and he drove Philip from the Hellespont.(Phocion · 📍 Byzantium)
  • With: Phocion Philip Leon
  • “The assembly being moved with this speech of his, changed their minds on the sudden, and commanded him immediately to raise another force, and go himself to assist their confederates in the Hellespont; an appointment which, in effect, contributed more than anything to the relief of Byzantium.”

Phocion

• with Phocion (interaction) “When Chares once made some remark on his frowning looks, and the Athenians laughed at the jest.”

Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero

• with Demosthenes (Chares stood in need of Demosthenes's assistance.) “as Chares, Diopithes, and Leosthenes of Demosthenes's, Pompey and young Caesar of Cicero's”

Also listed in Athens — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.