Chabrias

Family: Athenians · Role: admiral · First appears: Book 5, section 1, part 1/3

At Aegina, Chabrias’s ambush defeated Gorgopas’s relief force, killing Gorgopas and the Lacedaemonians with him. The battle also killed 150 Aeginetans and 200 foreign auxiliaries, metics, and sailors; Demaenetus commanded the Athenian hoplites who appeared at daybreak.

In B.C. 376, Chabrias led the Athenians to victory in a sea-fight against Pollis. Later, Iphicrates associated him and Callistratus with himself as colleagues, recognizing Chabrias’s high military reputation.

Relationship record

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: Demaenetus 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: Demaenetus 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.”
• Chabrias led the Athenians to victory in a sea-fight against Pollis.(Book 5, section 4, part 5/5)
  • With: Pollis
  • “The Athenians, making a virtue of necessity, manned their ships in person, gave battle to Pollis under the leadership of Chabrias, and came out of the sea-fight victorious.”
• Iphicrates associated Callistratus and Chabrias with himself as colleagues.(Book 6, section 2, part 2/2)
  • With: Iphicrates Callistratus
  • “If his strategy was admirable, so too was the instinct which led him to advise the association with himself of two such colleagues as Callistratus and Chabrias”

Book 5, section 1, part 1/3

• with Evagoras (Chabrias brought relief to Evagoras.) “It was after these events that Chabrias commenced his voyage to Cyprus, bringing relief to Evagoras.”
• enemies with Gorgopas (Gorgopas fell in the fighting against the relief party led by Chabrias.) “At their fall the rest of course turned and fled. 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.”
• with Demaenetus (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 4, part 1/5

• with Cleombrotus (Their forces operated on opposing sides during the campaign.) “Now while Chabrias, with a body of Athenian peltasts, kept watch and ward over the road through Eleutherae, Cleombrotus made his way up by the direct route to Plataeae.”

Book 5, section 4, part 4/5

• with Agesilaus (Chabrias is called upon to bring up supports during Agesilaus's retreat.) “Their shouts could be heard calling out to Chabrias for not bringing up his supports; when the cavalry of the Olynthians (who now contributed a contingent in accordance with their oaths) wheeled round on them, caught the pursuers in the heat of their pursuit, and drove them uphill, putting large numbers of them to the sword--so quickly are infantry overhauled by cavalry on steep ground which can be ridden over.”

Book 5, section 4, part 5/5

• enemies with Pollis “The Athenians, making a virtue of necessity, manned their ships in person, gave battle to Pollis under the leadership of Chabrias, and came out of the sea-fight victorious.”

Book 6, section 2, part 2/2

• with Iphicrates (Chabrias was associated with Iphicrates as a colleague.) “If his strategy was admirable, so too was the instinct which led him to advise the association with himself of two such colleagues as Callistratus and Chabrias--the former a popular orator but no great friend of himself politically, the other a man of high military reputation.”

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