Athenian — Minor Figures
14 figures from Pausanias' Description of Greece who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Demos
personification · first appears Book 1 · Chapter 3
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · with Theseus “And Democracy and Demos and Theseus are painted on the wall beyond. The painting represents Theseus restoring to the Athenians political equality.”
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · with Lyson “and to Demos (the work of Lyson)”
Chabrias
military commander · first appears Book 9 · Chapter 15
- Book 9 · Chapter 15 · enemies with Epaminondas “and also the Achæans from Pellene and the Athenians who were under the command of Chabrias”
Philocles
Admiral · first appears Book 9 · Chapter 32
- Book 9 · Chapter 32 · with Lysander “He put to death Philocles, the Athenian Admiral at Ægos-potamoi, and 4000 Athenian captives, and would not allow them burial, though the Athenians granted burial to the Medes at Marathon, and King Xerxes to the Lacedæmonians that fell at Thermopylæ.”
Menodorus
sculptor · first appears Book 9 · Chapter 27
- Book 9 · Chapter 27 · with Eros “The statue of Eros in Thespia in our day is by the Athenian Menodorus, who made an imitation of the statue of Praxiteles.”
Callistratus
cavalry commander · first appears Book 7 · Chapter 16
- Book 7 · Chapter 16 · parent: Empedus “Callistratus, the son of Empedus, had displayed to the Athenians.”
- Book 7 · Chapter 16 · with Diæus “Diæus fled for Megalopolis, exhibiting to the Achæans none of that spirit which Callistratus, the son of Empedus, had displayed to the Athenians.”
Demades
traitor · first appears Book 7 · Chapter 10
- Book 7 · Chapter 10 · with Antipater (Macedonian statesman) “But Demades and other traitors at Athens persuaded Antipater not to act friendly to the Greeks”
Æsimides
governor · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 5
- Book 4 · Chapter 5 · parent: Æschylus “At the time of the capture of Amphea Æsimides, the son of Æschylus, was in the fifth year of his government over the Athenians.”
Timotheus (father of Conon)
father of Conon · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 9
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · child: Conon “the Athenians urged, as pretext for refusing their aid, the strain of the Peloponnesian war and the city’s need of recovery from the plague: but their having learnt from envoys that Conon the son of Timotheus had gone to the great king, was their main motive.”
Mœrocles
first appears Book 10 · Chapter 20
- Book 10 · Chapter 20 · child: Callippus “And the Athenians were under Callippus the son of Mœrocles, as I have before stated, and consisted of all the triremes that were sea-worthy, and 500 horse, and 1,000 foot, and because of their ancient renown they were in command of the whole allied army.”
Phanostratus
father of Demetrius · first appears Book 1 · Chapter 25
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · child: Demetrius the son of Phanostratus “Demetrius the son of Phanostratus, (who had his father’s repute for wisdom)”
Timocles
sculptor · first appears Book 10 · Chapter 34
- Book 10 · Chapter 34 · with Timarchides “a statue of the god with a beard by Timocles and Timarchides, who were both of Athenian extraction”
- Book 10 · Chapter 34 · with Timarchides “There is a temple also of Æsculapius, and a statue of the god with a beard by Timocles and Timarchides, who were both of Athenian extraction.”
Timarchides
sculptor · first appears Book 10 · Chapter 34
- Book 10 · Chapter 34 · with Timocles “a statue of the god with a beard by Timocles and Timarchides, who were both of Athenian extraction”
- Book 10 · Chapter 34 · with Timocles “There is a temple also of Æsculapius, and a statue of the god with a beard by Timocles and Timarchides, who were both of Athenian extraction.”
Æsimidas
ancestor of Cleidicus · first appears Book 1 · Chapter 3
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · child: Cleidicus “Cleidicus the son of Æsimidas”
Cleidicus
king · first appears Book 1 · Chapter 3
- Book 1 · Chapter 3 · parent: Æsimidas “Cleidicus the son of Æsimidas”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.