Hippagretas

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 12 · Part 6

When Epitadas was killed, Hippagretas, next in command, was “left for dead among the slain, though still alive.” Under the law, command then devolved upon Styphon.

Relationship record

Book 4 · Chapter 12 · Part 6

• with Styphon (Styphon assumed command while Hippagretas was left for dead.) “Epitadas, the first of the previous commanders, had been killed, and Hippagretas, the next in command, left for dead among the slain, though still alive, and thus the command had devolved upon Styphon according to the law, in case of anything happening to his superiors.”
• with Epitadas (Hippagretas was next in command after Epitadas.) “Hostilities now ceased, and a parley was held between Cleon and Demosthenes and Styphon, son of Pharax, on the other side; since Epitadas, the first of the previous commanders, had been killed, and Hippagretas, the next in command, left for dead among the slain, though still alive, and thus the command had devolved upon Styphon according to the law, in case of anything happening to his superiors.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.