Eurylochus

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2

In the same summer, Eurylochus, a Spartan, led an allied army against Naupactus, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius. After the army assembled at Delphi, he sent a herald to the Ozolian Locrians; the Amphissians gave hostages and persuaded other Locrian communities to do so as well. He took Oeneon and Eupalium when they refused to join him, then his army captured Naupactus’s unfortified suburb and Molycrium.

When Eurylochus learned that Naupactus could not be stormed, he withdrew. At Olpae, he and Macarius died in battle, and Menedaius succeeded them to sole command. Earlier in the campaign, Eurylochus and his men had confronted Demosthenes and the Messenians.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Aetolian embassy secured a Spartan-led allied army to march against Naupactus.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2 · 📍 Naupactus)
  • With: Tolophus Boriades Tisander Macarius Menedaius
  • “The same summer the Aetolians, who before the Athenian expedition had sent an embassy to Corinth and Lacedaemon, composed of Tolophus, an Ophionian, Boriades, an Eurytanian, and Tisander, an Apodotian, obtained that an army should be sent them against Naupactus, which had invited the Athenian invasion. The Lacedaemonians accordingly sent off towards autumn three thousand heavy infantry of the allies, five hundred of whom were from Heraclea, the newly founded city in Trachis, under the command of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans.”
• After assembling at Delphi, Eurylochus sent a herald to the Ozolian Locrians.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2 · 📍 Delphi)
  • “The army having assembled at Delphi, Eurylochus sent a herald to the Ozolian Locrians”
• The Amphissians gave hostages and persuaded other Locrian communities to do the same.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2 · 📍 Locris)
  • “These first gave hostages themselves, and induced the rest to do the same for fear of the invading army; first, their neighbours the Myonians, who held the most difficult of the passes, and after them the Ipnians, Messapians, Tritaeans, Chalaeans, Tolophonians, Hessians, and Oeanthians, all of whom joined in the expedition”
• Eurylochus took Oeneon and Eupalium after they refused to join him.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 3 · 📍 Oeneon and Eupalium)
  • “taking upon his way Oeneon and Eupalium, two of their towns that refused to join him.”
• Eurylochus's army took Naupactus's unfortified suburb and Molycrium.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 3 · 📍 Naupactian territory)
  • “the army laid waste the land and took the suburb of the town, which was unfortified; and after this Molycrium also, a Corinthian colony subject to Athens.”
• Eurylochus withdrew after learning that Naupactus could not be stormed.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 3 · 📍 Naupactian territory)
  • “finding that this force had entered and that it was impossible to storm the town, withdrew”
• Eurylochus and Macarius died in the battle.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4 · 📍 Olpae)
  • With: Macarius
  • “on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius”
• Menedaius succeeded Eurylochus and Macarius to sole command.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4 · 📍 Olpae)
  • With: Menedaius Macarius
  • “Menedaius, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command”

Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2

• with Macarius (Macarius accompanied Eurylochus on the expedition.) “under the command of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans.”
• with Menedaius (Menedaius accompanied Eurylochus on the expedition.) “under the command of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans.”

Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 3

• enemies with Demosthenes “where Eurylochus and his men confronted the Messenians and Demosthenes.”

Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4

• with Menedaius (Menedaius succeeded Eurylochus in command after his death.) “The next day Menedaius, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command, being at a loss after so signal a defeat how to stay and sustain a siege, cut off as he was by land and by the Athenian fleet by sea, and equally so how to retreat in safety, opened a parley with Demosthenes and the Acarnanian generals for a truce and permission to retreat, and at the same time for the recovery of the dead.”

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