Thearidas

Family: Boeotian · Role: Boeotarch · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 20

In Book 10, Chapter 20, Thearidas was named among the Boeotarchs commanding 10,000 infantry and 500 horse alongside Cephisodotus, Diogenes and Lysander. At Thermopylæ, he joined the Greek forces that gathered against the Galati. He and the other Boeotarchs went with a detachment to Sperchius, where the Greeks destroyed the bridges and camped beside the river; after Galati troops crossed during the night, the detachment returned to the main army.

Relationship record

Life events

• Greek contingents banded together at Thermopylæ against the Galati.(Book 10 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Thermopylæ)
  • With: Cephisodotus Diogenes Lysander Critobulus Antiochus (Phocian commander) Polyarchus Polyphron Lacrates Callippus Aristodemus (the Macedonian) Telesarchus
  • “And now against these barbarians who had crossed the ocean the following Greeks banded themselves at Thermopylæ:”
• The Greeks sent troops to Sperchius, destroyed its bridges, and encamped beside the river.(Book 10 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Sperchius)
  • With: Cephisodotus Diogenes Lysander
  • “And they went and destroyed the bridges, and encamped by the river.”
• Galati troops crossed the Sperchius by swimming, fording, and using shields as rafts.(Book 10 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Sperchius)
  • With: Cephisodotus Diogenes Lysander
  • “They crossed over accordingly, swimming over the marshy part of the river, and using the shields of their country as a sort of raft, while the tallest of them could ford the river.”
• The Greek detachment returned to the main army after noticing the Galati crossing.(Book 10 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Sperchius)
  • With: Cephisodotus Diogenes Lysander
  • “When the Greeks at the Sperchius noticed that part of the barbarians had crossed over, they returned at once to the main army.”

Book 10 · Chapter 20

• with Cephisodotus (co-commanders) “10,000 heavy armed infantry and 500 horse from Bœotia, under the Bœotarchs Cephisodotus and Thearidas and Diogenes and Lysander”
• with Diogenes (co-commanders) “10,000 heavy armed infantry and 500 horse from Bœotia, under the Bœotarchs Cephisodotus and Thearidas and Diogenes and Lysander”
• with Lysander (co-commanders) “10,000 heavy armed infantry and 500 horse from Bœotia, under the Bœotarchs Cephisodotus and Thearidas and Diogenes and Lysander”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.