Euryanax

Family: Spartan · Role: commander · First appears: Book 9 · §1–10

Life events

• Amompharetos refused to agree to retreat and voted to remain and fight.(Book 9 · §54–61)
  • With: Amompharetos Pausanias
  • “Amompharetos in his contention took a piece of rock in both his hands and placed it at the feet of Pausanias, saying that with this pebble he gave his vote not to fly from the strangers”

Book 9 · §1–10

• parent: Dorieos (Dorieos was Euryanax's father.) “Euryanax the son of Dorieos”

Book 9 · §46–53

• with Pausanias (They are presented as acting together in command.) “And Pausanias and Euryanax were greatly disturbed that he did not obey them”
• with Pausanias (They are acting together as Spartan commanders.) “And Pausanias and Euryanax were greatly disturbed that he did not obey them and still more that they should be compelled to leave the Pitanate division behind, since he thus refused;”

Book 9 · §54–61

• with Amompharetos (Euryanax exhorted Amompharetos not to remain behind.) “for when Euryanax and Pausanias both exhorted Amompharetos not to run the risk of remaining behind with his men, alone of all the Lacedemonians, they did not at all persuade him”

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