Xenophon's Hellenica

Mantitheus

Family: Athenians · Role: captured in Caria · First appears: Book 1, section 1, part 1/2

Book 1, section 1, thirty days after Alcibiades was captured in Caria, Mantitheus accompanied him as they procured horses and escaped by night to Clazomenae. In section 3, Mantitheus was among the Athenian representatives when Pharnabazus put himself at the head of the gathered embassies.

Relationship record

Book 1, section 1, part 1/2

  • with Alcibiades (Mantitheus accompanied Alcibiades in his escape.) “Thirty days later Alcibiades, accompanied by Mantitheus, who had been captured in Caria, managed to procure horses and escaped by night to Clazomenae.”

Book 1, section 3

  • with Pharnabazus (Mantitheus was among the ambassadors Pharnabazus led.) “The representatives of Athens were Dorotheus, Philodices, Theogenes, Euryptolemus, and Mantitheus; with them were two Argives, Cleostratus and Pyrrholochus. An embassy of the Lacedaemonians was also about to make the journey. This consisted of Pasippidas and his fellows, with whom were Hermocrates, now an exile from Syracuse, and his brother Proxenus. So Pharnabazus put himself at their head.”

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