Machanidas

Family: Spartan · Role: tyrant · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 29

Life events

Machanidas rose against the Lacedæmonians as their tyrant.(Book 4 · Chapter 29)
- “And when the Lacedæmonians had got rid of Cleomenes, there rose up against them the tyrant Machanidas”
Philopœmen routed the Lacedæmonians and slew Machanidas during the battle of Mantinea.(Book 8 · Chapter 50 · 📍 Mantinea)
- With: Philopœmen
- “Philopœmen forming his infantry into a square routed the Lacedæmonian hoplites, and fell in with Machanidas as he was returning from the pursuit and slew him.”

with Nabis (Nabis succeeded Machanidas as tyrant.) “And when the Lacedæmonians had got rid of Cleomenes, there rose up against them the tyrant Machanidas: and after his death Nabis sprang up as tyrant over them.”

enemies with Philopœmen “And when Machanidas rose to power in Lacedæmon, and war again broke out between the Achæans and the Lacedæmonians under him, Philopœmen was commander in chief of the Achæan force, and in the battle of Mantinea the light-armed Lacedæmonians beat the light-armed troops of the Achæans, and Machanidas pressed upon them in their flight, but Philopœmen forming his infantry into a square routed the Lacedæmonian hoplites, and fell in with Machanidas as he was returning from the pursuit and slew him.”

Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.