Spartan — Minor Figures

7 figures from Pausanias' Description of Greece who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Machanidas

tyrant · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 29

• Book 4 · Chapter 29 · with Nabis “And when the Lacedæmonians had got rid of Cleomenes, there rose up against them the tyrant Machanidas: and after his death Nabis sprang up as tyrant over them.”
• Book 8 · Chapter 50 · enemies with Philopœmen “And when Machanidas rose to power in Lacedæmon, and war again broke out between the Achæans and the Lacedæmonians under him, Philopœmen was commander in chief of the Achæan force, and in the battle of Mantinea the light-armed Lacedæmonians beat the light-armed troops of the Achæans, and Machanidas pressed upon them in their flight, but Philopœmen forming his infantry into a square routed the Lacedæmonian hoplites, and fell in with Machanidas as he was returning from the pursuit and slew him.”

Agias

seer · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 11

• Book 3 · Chapter 11 · with Lysander “they say foretold Lysander that he would capture all the Athenian fleet at Ægos-potamoi but ten triremes”
• Book 3 · Chapter 11 · parent: Agelochus “This Agias was the son of Agelochus, the son of Tisamenus.”

Agelochus

father of Agias · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 11

• Book 3 · Chapter 11 · child: Agias “This Agias was the son of Agelochus, the son of Tisamenus.”
• Book 3 · Chapter 11 · parent: Tisamenus (of Elis) “This Agias was the son of Agelochus, the son of Tisamenus.”

Glaucus (son of Epicydes)

son of Epicydes · first appears Book 2 · Chapter 18

• Book 2 · Chapter 18 · parent: Epicydes “Glaucus the son of Epicydes the Spartan”

Hecas (ancestor)

ancestor and namesake of Hecas · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 16

• Book 4 · Chapter 16 · with Hecas “the Lacedæmonian seer being Hecas, the descendant and namesake of that Hecas who had come to Sparta with the sons of Aristodemus”
• Book 4 · Chapter 16 · younger kin: Hecas “the Lacedæmonian seer being Hecas, the descendant and namesake of that Hecas who had come to Sparta with the sons of Aristodemus”

Emperamus

master and commander · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 20

• Book 4 · Chapter 20 · servant: Herdsman “but a herdsman, a slave of Emperamus who was a man of some note at Sparta.”

Othryades

first appears Book 2 · Chapter 20

• Book 2 · Chapter 20 · with Perilaus (son of Alcenor) “Perilaus the Argive, the son of Alcenor, slaying Othryades the Spartan”

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