Melon

Family: Thebes · Role: exile · First appears: Pelopidas

Life events

Pelopidas, Melon, and Charon liberated the Cadmea after its Spartan garrison surrendered.(Pelopidas · 📍 Cadmea)
- With: Pelopidas Charon
- “Then Pelopidas, being chosen chief captain of Boeotia, together with Melon and Charon, proceeded at once to blockade the citadel, and stormed it on all sides, being extremely desirous to expel the Lacedaemonians, and free the Cadmea, before an army could come from Sparta to their relief. And he just so narrowly succeeded, that they, having surrendered on terms and departed, on their way home met Cleombrotus at Megara marching towards Thebes with a considerable force.”

rivals with Pherenicus “Melon, Damoclides, and Theopompus, men of noble families, who, in other things loving and faithful to one another, were constant rivals only in glory and courageous exploits.”
rivals with Damoclides “Melon, Damoclides, and Theopompus, men of noble families, who, in other things loving and faithful to one another, were constant rivals only in glory and courageous exploits.”
rivals with Theopompus “Melon, Damoclides, and Theopompus, men of noble families, who, in other things loving and faithful to one another, were constant rivals only in glory and courageous exploits.”
enemies with Archias “Charon and Melon against Archias and Philip, having put on women's apparel over their breastplates”
enemies with Philip “Charon and Melon against Archias and Philip, having put on women's apparel over their breastplates”
with Charon (interaction) “Charon and Melon against Archias and Philip”
rivals with Pelopidas “then Melon, Damoclides, and Theopompus, men of noble families, who, in other things loving and faithful to one another, were constant rivals only in glory and courageous exploits.”

with Sphodrias (interaction) “It is said, too, that Pelopidas and Melon, the chief captains of Boeotia, put him upon it”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.