Diodotus

Family: Athenian · Role: speaker · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 6

Diodotus, son of Eucrates, spoke after Cleon in the assembly, having also spoken strongly against putting the Mitylenians to death at the previous assembly. His motion to try those sent as guilty and leave the rest undisturbed carried the day; a second ship reached Mitylene in time to prevent the massacre.

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Life events

• Diodotus’s motion to try those sent as guilty and leave the rest undisturbed carried the day.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 7)
  • “the motion of Diodotus carried the day.”
• A second ship arrived in time to prevent the massacre.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 7 · 📍 Mitylene)
  • “the second put into port and prevented the massacre.”

Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 6

• parent: Eucrates “Such were the words of Cleon. After him Diodotus, son of Eucrates, who had also in the previous assembly spoken most strongly against putting the Mitylenians to death, came forward and spoke as follows:”
• with Cleon (Diodotus spoke after Cleon in the assembly.) “Such were the words of Cleon. After him Diodotus, son of Eucrates, who had also in the previous assembly spoken most strongly against putting the Mitylenians to death, came forward and spoke as follows:”

Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 7

• with Cleon (They opposed each other in the debate over the punishment of Mitylene.) “The two opinions thus expressed were the ones that most directly contradicted each other;”

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