Nicias
Family: Athenians · Role: general and painter · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 29
In Book 1, Chapter 29, Nicias, son of Nicomedes, surrendered voluntarily after his capture, while Demosthenes attempted suicide. In Book 2, Chapter 2, at Corinth, Nicias and the Athenians captured Lais as a child and sold her.
By Book 4, Chapter 31, Omphalion is described as Nicias’s pupil, and some say he was also Nicias’s slave and favourite. In Book 6, Chapter 5, Polydamas is identified as Nicias’s son.
Relationship record
Life events
- Demosthenes attempted suicide after capture, while Nicias surrendered voluntarily.(Book 1 · Chapter 29)
- With: Demosthenes
- “Demosthenes made conditions of surrender for everybody but himself, and when he was taken attempted suicide, whereas Nicias surrendered voluntarily.”
- Lais was captured as a child and sold at Corinth by Nicias and the Athenians.(Book 2 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Corinth)
- With: Lais
- “She is said to have come originally from Hyccara in Sicily, and to have been taken prisoner as a child by Nicias and the Athenians, and to have been sold at Corinth”
Book 1 · Chapter 29
- with Demosthenes (The passage contrasts their respective surrenders.) “Demosthenes made conditions of surrender for everybody but himself, and when he was taken attempted suicide, whereas Nicias surrendered voluntarily”
- parent: Nicomedes “Nicias the son of Nicomedes”
Book 2 · Chapter 2
- with Lais (Nicias participated in taking Lais prisoner.) “She is said to have come originally from Hyccara in Sicily, and to have been taken prisoner as a child by Nicias and the Athenians, and to have been sold at Corinth,”
Book 3 · Chapter 19
- parent: Nicomedes “Nicias the son of Nicomedes has represented him as very handsome”
Book 4 · Chapter 31
- parent: Nicomedes “Omphalion, the pupil of Nicias the son of Nicomedes”
- pupil: Omphalion “These paintings were executed by Omphalion, the pupil of Nicias the son of Nicomedes”
- servant: Omphalion “some say that he was also the slave of Nicias and his favourite.”
Book 6 · Chapter 5
- child: Polydamas “It is the statue of Polydamas, the son of Nicias, the largest man of our times.”
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