Parmenes

Role: leader of the Theban settlers · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 27

Life events

• Epaminondas promoted Megalopolis’s colonization and sent Parmenes with Thebans to defend it.(Book 8 · Chapter 27 · 📍 Megalopolis)
  • With: Epaminondas
  • “The founder of the city might justly be called Epaminondas the Theban: for he it was that stirred up the Arcadians to this colonization, and sent 1,000 picked Thebans, with Parmenes as their leader, to defend the Arcadians should the Lacedæmonians attempt to prevent the colonization.”

Book 8 · Chapter 27

• with Epaminondas (Parmenes was the leader of the troops sent by Epaminondas.) “and sent 1,000 picked Thebans, with Parmenes as their leader, to defend the Arcadians should the Lacedæmonians attempt to prevent the colonization.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.