Thymochares

Family: Athenian · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4

Life events

• Thymochares’s Athenian fleet was defeated by Agesandridas’s forces off Eretria.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4 · 📍 Eretria)
  • With: Agesandridas
  • “The Athenians, forced to put out so poorly prepared, engaged off the harbour of Eretria, and after holding their own for some little while notwithstanding, were at length put to flight and chased to the shore.”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4

• with Agesandridas (Thymochares was sent to Eretria as Agesandridas's force approached.) “The Athenians, with revolution in the city, and unwilling to lose a moment in going to the relief of their most important possession (for Euboea was everything to them now that they were shut out from Attica), were compelled to put to sea in haste and with untrained crews, and sent Thymochares with some vessels to Eretria.”

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