Lachares
Family: Athenian · Role: leader of the democracy · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 25
As leader of the Athenian democracy, Lachares was persuaded by Cassander to plot to become king. While in power, he plundered Lycurgus’s silver and gold work and stripped the statue of Athene of its removable ornaments.
Demetrius the son of Antigonus defeated Lachares and put down his power, freeing the Athenians from his rule. When the town was taken, Lachares fled into Bœotia.
Relationship record
Life events
- Demetrius defeated Lachares, who fled into Bœotia.(Book 1 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Bœotia)
- With: Demetrius the son of Antigonus
- “But Demetrius the son of Antigonus, though he had not been on the best of terms with the Athenian democracy, yet was successful in putting down the power of Lachares. And when the town was taken Lachares fled into Bœotia.”
- Lachares plundered Lycurgus’s silver and gold work.(Book 1 · Chapter 29)
- With: Lycurgus
- “All his silver and gold work Lachares plundered when he was in power”
Book 1 · Chapter 25
- with Cassander (Cassander persuaded Lachares to plot to become king.) “won over Lachares, who had up to this time been the leader of the democracy, and persuaded him to plot to be king”
- enemies with Demetrius the son of Antigonus (Demetrius defeated Lachares.) “Demetrius the son of Antigonus, though he had not been on the best of terms with the Athenian democracy, yet was successful in putting down the power of Lachares”
- with Athene (Lachares stripped the removable ornaments from Athene's statue.) “had stripped the statue of Athene of all the ornaments that were removable”
- with Demetrius the son of Antigonus (Demetrius freed the Athenians from Lachares's rule.) “having freed the Athenians from the yoke of Lachares”
Book 1 · Chapter 29
- with Lycurgus (Lachares plundered the silver and gold work associated with Lycurgus.) “All his silver and gold work Lachares plundered when he was in power”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.