Phaeax

Family: Athenian · Role: ambassador · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 1

Life events

• Phaeax encouraged the inhabitants of Bricinniae during his mission in Sicily.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 1 · 📍 Bricinniae)
  • “Arrived in Sicily, Phaeax succeeded at Camarina and Agrigentum, but meeting with a repulse at Gela did not go on to the rest, as he saw that he should not succeed with them, but returned through the country of the Sicels to Catana, and after visiting Bricinniae as he passed, and encouraging its inhabitants, sailed back to Athens.”
• Phaeax secured the Locrians’ agreement to a treaty with Athens.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 1)
  • “These being met by Phaeax on their return home received no injury at his hands, as the Locrians had agreed with him for a treaty with Athens.”

Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 1

• parent: Erasistratus “About the same time Phaeax, son of Erasistratus, set sail with two colleagues as ambassador from Athens to Italy and Sicily.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.