Demaenetus

Family: Athenians · Role: commander of the hoplites · First appears: Book 5, section 1, part 1/3

At Aegina, at break of day, the Athenian hoplites under Demaenetus appeared as prearranged and began mounting up beyond the Kerakleion at Tripurgia, during Chabrias’s defeat of Gorgopas’s relief force. Meanwhile, Demaenetus joined Dionysius (Athenian commander), Leontichus and Phanias in pursuing Antalcidas toward Proconnesus; after they passed, Antalcidas turned back to Abydos.

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Life events

• Chabrias's ambush defeated Gorgopas's relief force, killing Gorgopas and the accompanying Lacedaemonians.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Aegina)
  • With: Chabrias Gorgopas
  • “At their fall the rest of course turned and fled.”
• The battle killed 150 Aeginetans and 200 foreign auxiliaries, metics, and sailors.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Aegina)
  • With: Chabrias Gorgopas
  • “One hundred and fifty Aeginetans were numbered among the slain, while the loss incurred by the foreigners, metics, and sailors who had joined the relief party, reached a total of two hundred.”
• Athenian commanders pursued Antalcidas toward Proconnesus, but he returned to Abydos after they passed.(Book 5, section 1, part 2/3 · 📍 Proconnesus)
  • With: Antalcidas Dionysius (Athenian commander) Leontichus Phanias
  • “Meanwhile the Athenian forces under Demaenetus and Dionysius and Leontichus and Phanias had got wind of his movement, and were in hot pursuit towards Proconnesus. As soon as they were well past, the Spartan veered round and returned to Abydos”

Book 5, section 1, part 1/3

• with Chabrias (Demaenetus commanded hoplites during Chabrias's operation.) “At break of day, as prearranged, the Athenian hoplites made their appearance under command of Demaenetus, and began mounting up between two and three miles beyond the Kerakleion at Tripurgia, as it is called.”

Book 5, section 1, part 2/3

• enemies with Antalcidas “Meanwhile the Athenian forces under Demaenetus and Dionysius and Leontichus and Phanias had got wind of his movement, and were in hot pursuit towards Proconnesus.”

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