Theaenetus

Family: Plataean · Role: soothsayer · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 3

In Book 3, Section 9, Theaenetus, a Plataean soothsayer and son of Tolmides, proposed with Eupompides that the besieged Plataeans escape over the enemy’s walls. On stormy, wet nights, about two hundred and twenty Plataeans made the escape in a night raid, aided mainly by the violence of the storm.

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Life events

• Theaenetus and Eupompides proposed that the besieged Plataeans attempt to escape over the enemy's walls.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 3)
  • With: Tolmides Eupompides Daimachus
  • “the attempt having been suggested by Theaenetus, son of Tolmides, a soothsayer, and Eupompides, son of Daimachus, one of their generals.”
• About two hundred and twenty Plataeans escaped over the enemy's wall in a night raid.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 3)
  • With: Tolmides Eupompides Daimachus Ammias Coroebus
  • “However, it was mainly the violence of the storm that enabled them to effect their escape at all.”

Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 3

• parent: Tolmides “the attempt having been suggested by Theaenetus, son of Tolmides, a soothsayer, and Eupompides, son of Daimachus, one of their generals.”
• with Eupompides (Co-suggested the escape attempt.) “the attempt having been suggested by Theaenetus, son of Tolmides, a soothsayer, and Eupompides, son of Daimachus, one of their generals.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.