Plutarch's Lives

Phoebidas

Family: Sparta · Role: commander · First appears: Pelopidas

Life events

  • Phoebidas seized the Cadmea; Ismenias was murdered, and Pelopidas and Pherenicus were proclaimed outlaws.(Pelopidas · 📍 Cadmea)
    • With: Ismenias Pelopidas Pherenicus
    • “He, accepting the proposal, at the festival of Ceres unexpectedly fell on the Thebans, and made himself master of the citadel. Ismenias was taken, carried to Sparta, and in a short time murdered; but Pelopidas, Pherenicus, Androclides, and many more that fled were publicly proclaimed outlaws.”
  • Agesilaus zealously supported Phoebidas after Phoebidas treacherously broke the peace with Thebes.(Comparison of Pompey and Agesilaus · 📍 Thebes)
    • With: Agesilaus
    • “when Phoebidas treacherously broke the peace with Thebes, zealously abetted him for the sake, it was clear, of the unjust act itself.”

Pelopidas

  • with Archias (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan, as he was on his way past the city with a considerable force, to surprise the Cadmea”
  • with Leontidas (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan, as he was on his way past the city with a considerable force, to surprise the Cadmea”
  • with Philip (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan, as he was on his way past the city with a considerable force, to surprise the Cadmea”
  • with Archias (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan”
  • with Leontidas (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan”
  • with Philip (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan”

Agesilaus

  • child: Isadas “Isadas, however, the son of Phoebidas”
  • with Agesilaus (interaction) “Agesilaus resolutely answered, on the behalf of Phoebidas”
  • parent: Isadas “Isadas, however, the son of Phoebidas”

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