Xenophon's Hellenica

Tlemonidas

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: officer commanding the light infantry division · First appears: Book 5, section 3, part 1/2

Life events

  • Tlemonidas was killed along with more than a hundred of his company.(Book 5, section 3, part 1/2 · 📍 Olynthus)
    • “Then the Olynthian cavalry, choosing a favourable moment, when those who had crossed seemed easy to deal with, wheeled and attacked them, putting Tlemonidas himself to the sword with more than a hundred others of his company.”

Book 5, section 3, part 1/2

  • with Teleutias (Military commander and subordinate.) “At sight of an audacity which nettled him, Teleutias at once ordered Tlemonidas, the officer commanding his light infantry division, to charge the assailants at the run.”

Also listed in Lacedaemonian — Minor Figures

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