The Peloponnesian War

Learchus

Family: Athenian · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 4

At the end of the same summer, in Thrace, Sadocus had the Lacedaemonian envoys seized as they travelled toward the Hellespont and ordered their delivery to the Athenian ambassadors. The party sent with Learchus and Ameiniades carried out the seizure; the envoys were then brought to Athens. The account names Learchus as the son of Callimachus.

Relationship record

Life events

Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 4

  • parent: Callimachus “Learchus, son of Callimachus, and Ameiniades, son of Philemon”
  • with Sadocus (interaction) “who persuaded Sitalces’ son, Sadocus, the new Athenian citizen, to put the men into their hands”
  • with Aristeus son of Adimantus (Aristeus was among the envoys seized and delivered to the Athenian ambassadors.) “by a party whom he had sent on with Learchus and Ameiniades, and gave orders for their delivery to the Athenian ambassadors, by whom they were brought to Athens.”

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