Melesippus

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: ambassador · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 4

In Book 1, Section 5, Melesippus arrived at Athens as a Lacedaemonian ambassador with Ramphias and Agesander, delivering an ultimatum that the Hellenes be left independent. In Book 2, Section 6, Archidamus sent him to Athens as the Peloponnesians marched, hoping the city might submit; Melesippus was the son of Diacritus. The Athenians refused to admit him to the city or assembly, and he was sent away without an audience and ordered beyond the frontier that same day.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Lacedaemonian ambassadors delivered an ultimatum demanding that the Hellenes be left independent.(Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 4 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Ramphias Agesander
  • “At last an embassy arrived with the Lacedaemonian ultimatum. The ambassadors were Ramphias, Melesippus, and Agesander. Not a word was said on any of the old subjects; there was simply this: ‘Lacedaemon wishes the peace to continue, and there is no reason why it should not, if you would leave the Hellenes independent.’”
• Archidamus sent Melesippus to Athens to see whether it would submit.(Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Archidamus
  • “With this brief speech dismissing the assembly, Archidamus first sent off Melesippus, son of Diacritus, a Spartan, to Athens, in case she should be more inclined to submit on seeing the Peloponnesians actually on the march.”
• Athens refused to admit Melesippus to the city or its assembly.(Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 2 · 📍 Athens)
  • “But the Athenians did not admit into the city or to their assembly, Pericles having already carried a motion against admitting either herald or embassy from the Lacedaemonians after they had once marched out.”
• Melesippus was sent away without an audience and ordered beyond the frontier.(Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 2)
  • “The herald was accordingly sent away without an audience, and ordered to be beyond the frontier that same day;”

Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 4

• with Ramphias (Fellow ambassadors.) “The ambassadors were Ramphias, Melesippus, and Agesander.”
• with Agesander (Fellow ambassadors.) “The ambassadors were Ramphias, Melesippus, and Agesander.”

Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 2

• parent: Diacritus “With this brief speech dismissing the assembly, Archidamus first sent off Melesippus, son of Diacritus, a Spartan, to Athens, in case she should be more inclined to submit on seeing the Peloponnesians actually on the march.”
• with Archidamus (Archidamus dispatched Melesippus as a herald.) “With this brief speech dismissing the assembly, Archidamus first sent off Melesippus, son of Diacritus, a Spartan, to Athens, in case she should be more inclined to submit on seeing the Peloponnesians actually on the march.”

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