Macarius
Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: Spartan · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2
The same summer, after the Aetolian embassy secured an allied army to march against Naupactus, Sparta sent three thousand allied heavy infantry under Eurylochus, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans. At Olpae, Eurylochus and Macarius died in battle; the next day, Menedaius succeeded them to sole command.
Relationship record
Life events
- The Aetolian embassy secured a Spartan-led allied army to march against Naupactus.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2 · 📍 Naupactus)
- With: Tolophus Boriades Tisander Eurylochus Menedaius
- “The same summer the Aetolians, who before the Athenian expedition had sent an embassy to Corinth and Lacedaemon, composed of Tolophus, an Ophionian, Boriades, an Eurytanian, and Tisander, an Apodotian, obtained that an army should be sent them against Naupactus, which had invited the Athenian invasion. The Lacedaemonians accordingly sent off towards autumn three thousand heavy infantry of the allies, five hundred of whom were from Heraclea, the newly founded city in Trachis, under the command of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans.”
- Eurylochus and Macarius died in the battle.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4 · 📍 Olpae)
- With: Eurylochus
- “on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius”
- Menedaius succeeded Eurylochus and Macarius to sole command.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4 · 📍 Olpae)
- With: Menedaius Eurylochus
- “Menedaius, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command”
Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 2
- with Eurylochus (Macarius accompanied Eurylochus on the expedition.) “under the command of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans.”
- with Menedaius (They served together on the expedition.) “under the command of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also Spartans.”
Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 4
- with Menedaius (Menedaius succeeded Macarius in command after his death.) “The next day Menedaius, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command, being at a loss after so signal a defeat how to stay and sustain a siege, cut off as he was by land and by the Athenian fleet by sea, and equally so how to retreat in safety, opened a parley with Demosthenes and the Acarnanian generals for a truce and permission to retreat, and at the same time for the recovery of the dead.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.