Pausanias' Description of Greece

Macartatus

Family: Athenians · Role: cavalry officer · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 29

Life events

  • Melanopus and Macartatus died fighting the Lacedæmonians and Bœotians.(Book 1 · Chapter 29 · 📍 border of the Eleonian and Tanagræan territory)
    • With: Melanopus
    • “whose names are Melanopus and Macartatus, who met their death contending against the Lacedæmonians and Bœotians, at the border of the Eleonian and Tanagræan territory.”

Book 1 · Chapter 29

  • with Melanopus (They are represented as cavalry officers fighting together.) “a pillar with a representation of two cavalry officers fighting, whose names are Melanopus and Macartatus”

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