Argive — Minor Figures
5 figures from History of the Peloponnesian War who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Thrasylus
one of the five generals · first appears Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 6
- Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 6 · with Agis “Two men, however, in the Argive army, Thrasylus, one of the five generals, and Alciphron, the Lacedaemonian proxenus, just as the armies were upon the point of engaging, went and held a parley with Agis and urged him not to bring on a battle, as the Argives were ready to refer to fair and equal arbitration whatever complaints the Lacedaemonians might have against them, and to make a treaty and live in peace in future.”
Pollis
private individual · first appears Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 4
- Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 4 · with Sitalces “At the end of the same summer the Corinthian Aristeus, Aneristus, Nicolaus, and Stratodemus, envoys from Lacedaemon, Timagoras, a Tegean, and a private individual named Pollis from Argos, on their way to Asia to persuade the King to supply funds and join in the war, came to Sitalces, son of Teres in Thrace, with the idea of inducing him, if possible, to forsake the alliance of Athens and to march on Potidæa then besieged by an Athenian force”
Ampelidas
envoy · first appears Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4
- Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4 · with Lichas “Argos, who had refused the application of Ampelidas and Lichas for a renewal of the treaty”
Eustrophus
envoy · first appears Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3
- Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3 · with Aeson “now hastily sent off Eustrophus and Aeson, who seemed the persons most likely to be acceptable, as envoys to Lacedaemon,”
Aeson
envoy · first appears Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3
- Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3 · with Eustrophus “now hastily sent off Eustrophus and Aeson, who seemed the persons most likely to be acceptable, as envoys to Lacedaemon,”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.