Chilon of Patræ

Family: Achaea · Role: wrestler · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 4

In Book 6, Chapter 4, Chilon of Patræ is identified as “I Chilon of Patræ the son of Chilon.” He was killed in war and received a public funeral from the Achæans. The account says he alone volunteered to fight at Lamia in Thessaly against Antipater (Macedonian statesman) and the Macedonians. A statue of Chilon stood near statues of Molpion and Aristotle of Stagira; the account also mentions Lysippus as the sculptor of Chilon’s effigy.

Relationship record

Life events

• Chilon was killed in war and received a public funeral from the Achæans.(Book 6 · Chapter 4)
  • “And he had a public funeral from the Achæans, as he was killed in war.”

Book 6 · Chapter 4

• parent: Chilon (Chilon was the father of Chilon of Patræ.) “I Chilon of Patræ the son of Chilon”
• with Molpion (Their statues are adjacent.) “And next to that of Chilon are two statues: one of Molpion”
• with Aristotle of Stagira (Their statues are adjacent.) “And next to that of Chilon are two statues: one of Molpion, who the inscription states was crowned by the people of Elis, and the other, which has no inscription, is they say Aristotle of Stagira in Thrace”
• with Lysippus (Lysippus made Chilon's effigy.) “if one conjectures from the age of Lysippus, who made the effigy”
• enemies with Antipater (Macedonian statesman) (The passage presents this as a conjecture about the war in which Chilon fell.) “or that he alone boldly volunteered to fight at Lamia in Thessaly against Antipater and the Macedonians”
• with Chilon (Chilon of Patræ is identified as the son of a man named Chilon.) “I Chilon of Patræ the son of Chilon”

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