Xenophon's Hellenica

Hippomachus

Family: the Thirty · Role: member of the Thirty · First appears: Book 2, section 4, part 2/4

Life events

  • Critias, Hippomachus, and Charmides were killed in the engagement.(Book 2, section 4, part 2/4)
    • With: Critias Charmides
    • “There fell in this engagement, out of the number of the Thirty, Critias himself and Hippomachus, and with them Charmides, the son of Glaucon, one of the ten archons in Piraeus”
  • The Thirty sat in the council chamber in deep desolation after their defeat.(Book 2, section 4, part 2/4 · 📍 the council chamber)
    • With: Critias
    • “But the next day the Thirty, in deep down-heartedness and desolation, sat in the council chamber.”
  • The Three Thousand voted to depose the government and elect a board of ten.(Book 2, section 4, part 2/4)
    • With: Critias
    • “In the end they voted a resolution to depose the government, and to elect another. This was a board of ten, elected one from each tribe.”

Book 2, section 4, part 2/4

  • enemies with Thrasybulus “There fell in this engagement, out of the number of the Thirty, Critias himself and Hippomachus,”

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