Euthydemus

Family: Athenian · Role: officer · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 3

In Book 7, Section 21, Euthydemus was one of the Athenian officers appointed alongside Menander to share command with Nicias after the Athenians refused Nicias’s resignation. In Section 23, he took command on board with Demosthenes and Menander as they sailed to the harbour barrier and tried to force a passage out.

Relationship record

Life events

• Athens refused Nicias’s resignation and appointed colleagues to share command.(Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 3 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Nicias Menander Demosthenes Eurymedon
  • “When the Athenians had heard it they refused to accept his resignation, but chose him two colleagues, naming Menander and Euthydemus, two of the officers at the seat of war, to fill their places until their arrival”
• The Athenian commanders sailed to the harbour barrier and tried to force a passage out.(Book 7 · Chapter 23 · Part 4)
  • With: Demosthenes Menander
  • “Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, who took the command on board, put out from their own camp and sailed straight to the barrier across the mouth of the harbour and to the passage left open, to try to force their way out.”

Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 3

• with Nicias (Named as a colleague of Nicias.) “chose him two colleagues, naming Menander and Euthydemus, two of the officers at the seat of war, to fill their places until their arrival”
• with Nicias (Euthydemus was appointed as a colleague to Nicias.) “When the Athenians had heard it they refused to accept his resignation, but chose him two colleagues, naming Menander and Euthydemus, two of the officers at the seat of war, to fill their places until their arrival, that Nicias might not be left alone in his sickness to bear the whole weight of affairs.”

Book 7 · Chapter 23 · Part 4

• with Demosthenes (Jointly took command aboard.) “while Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, who took the command on board, put out from their own camp and sailed straight to the barrier across the mouth of the harbour and to the passage left open, to try to force their way out.”
• with Menander (Jointly took command aboard.) “while Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, who took the command on board, put out from their own camp and sailed straight to the barrier across the mouth of the harbour and to the passage left open, to try to force their way out.”
• with Menander (Shared command aboard the Athenian ships.) “while Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, who took the command on board, put out from their own camp and sailed straight to the barrier across the mouth of the harbour and to the passage left open, to try to force their way out.”

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