Xenophon

Family: Athenian · Role: general · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 5

In the winter at Potidæa, Xenophon, son of Euripides, served as one of the Athenian generals with Hestiodorus and Phanomachus. The generals accepted Potidæa’s proposals to capitulate and granted terms for passage out; afterwards, the Athenians blamed them for agreeing without instructions from home.

The same summer, Xenophon commanded the Athenian expedition against the Chalcidians and Bottiaeans with two colleagues. The Athenians were routed at Spartolus, and Xenophon and the other generals were killed.

Relationship record

Life events

• The generals accepted Potidæa’s proposals to capitulate and granted terms for passage out.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 5 · 📍 Potidæa)
  • With: Hestiodorus Phanomachus
  • “In this extremity they at last made proposals for capitulating to the Athenian generals in command against them—Xenophon, son of Euripides, Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus, son of Callimachus. The generals accepted their proposals, seeing the sufferings of the army in so exposed a position; besides which the state had already spent two thousand talents upon the siege. The terms of the capitulation were as follows: a free passage out for themselves, their children, wives and auxiliaries, with one garment apiece, the women with two, and a fixed sum of money for their journey.”
• The Athenians blamed the generals for granting capitulation terms without instructions from home.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 5 · 📍 Potidæa)
  • With: Hestiodorus Phanomachus
  • “The Athenians, however, blamed the generals for granting terms without instructions from home, being of opinion that the place would have had to surrender at discretion.”
• Xenophon commanded the Athenian expedition against the Chalcidians and Bottiaeans.(Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 2 · 📍 Spartolus)
  • “under the command of Xenophon, son of Euripides, with two colleagues.”
• Xenophon and the other Athenian generals were killed when the Athenians were routed.(Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 2 · 📍 Spartolus)
  • “four hundred and thirty men and all the generals having fallen.”

Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 5

• parent: Euripides “Xenophon, son of Euripides, Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus, son of Callimachus.”
• with Hestiodorus (Served together as generals in command against the Potidæans.) “the Athenian generals in command against them—Xenophon, son of Euripides, Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus, son of Callimachus.”
• with Phanomachus (Served together as generals in command against the Potidæans.) “the Athenian generals in command against them—Xenophon, son of Euripides, Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus, son of Callimachus.”

Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 2

• parent: Euripides “under the command of Xenophon, son of Euripides, with two colleagues.”

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