Thebes — Minor Figures

7 figures from Plutarch's Lives who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Phillidas

secretary · first appears Pelopidas

• Pelopidas · employer: Archias “Phillidas contrived to get himself made secretary to Archias and Philip, who then held the office of polemarch or chief captain”
• Pelopidas · employer: Philip “Phillidas contrived to get himself made secretary to Archias and Philip, who then held the office of polemarch or chief captain”

Cephisodorus

conspirator · first appears Pelopidas

• Pelopidas · friends with Pelopidas “on his falling, the next that he engaged was Pelopidas”

Gorgidas

general · first appears Pelopidas

• Pelopidas · with Pelopidas “Then Pelopidas, being chosen chief captain of Boeotia, together with Melon and Charon, proceeded at once to blockade the citadel”
• Pelopidas · colleagues with Pelopidas “Gorgidas, according to some, first formed the Sacred Band of three hundred chosen men”

Hippoclus

father of Pelopidas · first appears Pelopidas

• Pelopidas · child: Pelopidas “Pelopidas, the son of Hippoclus, was descended, as likewise Epaminondas was, from an honorable family in Thebes”

Hipposthenidas

first appears Pelopidas

• Pelopidas · friends with Pelopidas “a friend to the exiles, but not of as much resolution as the shortness of time and the character of the action required”

Hypates

polemarch · first appears Pelopidas

• Pelopidas · enemies with Pelopidas “he and his companions went in pursuit of Hypates, and after the same manner broke into his house. He perceived the design, and fled to his neighbors; but they closely followed, and caught and killed him.”
• Pelopidas · enemies with Damoclides “Pelopidas and Damoclides with their party went against Leontidas and Hypates”

Ismenias

first appears Pelopidas

• Pelopidas · with Pelopidas “chiefly hated the party of Ismenias and Androclides, in which Pelopidas also was an associate”
• Pelopidas · friends with Pelopidas “chiefly hated the party of Ismenias and Androclides, in which Pelopidas also was an associate”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.