Pagondas
Family: Boeotian · Role: Boeotarch and commander-in-chief · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 3
Pagondas, son of Aeolidas, was one of the Boeotian commanders alongside Arianthides, and was commander-in-chief. In Book 4, Section 14, he persuaded the Boeotians to attack the Athenians and led them forward.
As Hippocrates son of Ariphron exhorted the Athenians, Pagondas spoke briefly to the Boeotians, who raised the paean and attacked. The Boeotians defeated the Athenians, whose army fled the battlefield.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pagondas persuaded the Boeotians to attack the Athenians and led his army forward.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 3)
- “By these arguments Pagondas persuaded the Boeotians to attack the Athenians, and quickly breaking up his camp led his army forward”
- The Boeotians defeated the Athenians, whose army fled the battlefield.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 4)
- With: Hippocrates son of Ariphron
- “At length in both parts of the field, disturbed by this panic, and with their line broken by the advancing Thebans, the whole Athenian army took to flight.”
Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 3
- parent: Aeolidas “Pagondas, son of Aeolidas, one of the Boeotarchs of Thebes (Arianthides, son of Lysimachidas, being the other), and then commander-in-chief, thought it best to hazard a battle.”
- with Arianthides (Both are identified as Boeotarchs of Thebes.) “Pagondas, son of Aeolidas, one of the Boeotarchs of Thebes (Arianthides, son of Lysimachidas, being the other), and then commander-in-chief, thought it best to hazard a battle.”
Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 4
- enemies with Hippocrates son of Ariphron “Hippocrates had got half through the army with his exhortation, when the Boeotians, after a few more hasty words from Pagondas, struck up the paean, and came against them”
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