Plutarch's Lives

Chabrias

Family: Athenian · Role: commander · First appears: Agesilaus

Life events

  • Phocion commanded the left squadron and helped secure a decisive naval victory at Naxos.(Phocion · 📍 Naxos)
    • With: Phocion
    • “Particularly the sea-fight at Naxos added not a little to Phocion's reputation, when he had the left squadron committed to him by Chabrias, as in this quarter the battle was sharply contested, and was decided by a speedy victory.”

Agesilaus

  • with Agesilaus (interaction) “Chabrias consented to it, and did what he could by persuasion and good words to keep Agesilaus with them.”

Phocion

  • pupil: Phocion “In his youth he followed Chabrias, the general, from whom he gained many lessons in military knowledge”
  • protégé: Phocion “Chabrias, who was a good-natured, kindly-tempered man, loved him much, and procured him commands and opportunities for action”
  • child: Ctesippus “chiefly to his son Ctesippus”
  • friends with Phocion “Neither did his friendship and attention close with Chabrias's life”

Demosthenes

  • parent: Ctesippus “at the request, as he says, of Ctesippus, the son of Chabrias,”

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