Lacedaemonian — Minor Figures
36 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.
Ameinias
first appears Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10
- Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10 · with Brasidas “Ischagoras himself, however, with Ameinias and Aristeus, succeeded in reaching Brasidas;”
Aristeus the Lacedaemonian envoy to Brasidas
first appears Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10
- Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10 · with Brasidas “Ischagoras himself, however, with Ameinias and Aristeus, succeeded in reaching Brasidas;”
Alciphron
proxenus · 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.”
Hipponoidas
Polemarch · first appears Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 8
- Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 8 · with Agis “However, as he gave these orders in the moment of the onset, and at short notice, it so happened that Aristocles and Hipponoidas would not move over, for which offence they were afterwards banished from Sparta, as having been guilty of cowardice; and the enemy meanwhile closed before the Sciritae (whom Agis on seeing that the two companies did not move over ordered to return to their place) had time to fill up the breach in question.”
- Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 8 · with Aristocles “However, as he gave these orders in the moment of the onset, and at short notice, it so happened that Aristocles and Hipponoidas would not move over, for which offence they were afterwards banished from Sparta, as having been guilty of cowardice”
Melanthus
first appears Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1
- Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1 · with Agis “Agis accepted their proposals, and sent for Alcamenes, son of Sthenelaidas, and Melanthus from Lacedaemon, to take the command in Euboea.”
Pasitelidas
commander in Torone · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10
- Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10 · parent: Hegesander, father of Pasitelidas “Brasidas accordingly placed Clearidas, son of Cleonymus, in Amphipolis, and Pasitelidas, son of Hegesander, in Torone.”
- Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 1 · with Cleon “But the Athenians from the ships had already taken Torone, and their land forces following at his heels burst in with him with a rush over the part of the old wall that had been pulled down, killing some of the Peloponnesians and Toronaeans in the melee, and making prisoners of the rest, and Pasitelidas their commander amongst them.”