Polymedes

Family: Larisa · Role: commander and party leader · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 4

Life events

• Athenian and Thessalian cavalry were routed by the Boeotians' infantry support, and some men were lost.(Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 4 · 📍 Phrygia)
  • With: Aristonus
  • “There was a trifling affair at Phrygia between a squadron of the Athenian horse with the Thessalians and the Boeotian cavalry; in which the former had rather the best of it, until the heavy infantry advanced to the support of the Boeotians, when the Thessalians and Athenians were routed and lost a few men, whose bodies, however, were recovered the same day without a truce.”

Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 4

• with Aristonus (Both were Larisaean commanders and party leaders.) “The Larisaean commanders were Polymedes and Aristonus, two party leaders in Larisa;”

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