Ischagoras

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: oath-taker and envoy · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10

In Book 4, Ischagoras was preparing to cross overland with an army to join Brasidas, but Perdiccas used his Thessalian allies to stop the army. Ischagoras nevertheless reached Brasidas with Ameinias and Aristeus.

In Book 5, after the Lacedaemonians freed their prisoners, they sent Ischagoras with Menas and Philocharidas to order Clearidas to hand over Amphipolis to the Athenians. In the spring, the Lacedaemonians and Athenians made a treaty with oaths to be renewed annually; after the other allies refused the treaty, they agreed on an alliance and exchanged oaths.

Relationship record

Life events

• Perdiccas used his Thessalian allies to stop the army preparing to join Brasidas.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10 · 📍 Thessaly)
  • With: Perdiccas
  • “Perdiccas, being now required by Nicias to give some proof of the sincerity of his reconciliation to the Athenians, and being himself no longer disposed to let the Peloponnesians into his country, put in motion his friends in Thessaly, with whose chief men he always took care to have relations, and so effectually stopped the army and its preparation that they did not even try the Thessalians.”
• Ischagoras, Ameinias, and Aristeus reached Brasidas after the army was stopped.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10)
  • With: Ameinias Aristeus the Lacedaemonian envoy to Brasidas Brasidas
  • “Ischagoras himself, however, with Ameinias and Aristeus, succeeded in reaching Brasidas”
• The Lacedaemonians freed their prisoners of war and sent envoys to order the handover of Amphipolis.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4)
  • With: Philocharidas Menas
  • “immediately set free all the prisoners of war in their possession, and sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to the towns in the direction of Thrace, to order Clearidas to hand over Amphipolis to the Athenians”
• The Lacedaemonians and Athenians made a treaty, with oaths to be renewed annually.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4)
  • With: Philocharidas Menas
  • “This treaty was made in the spring, just at the end of winter, directly after the city festival of Dionysus”
• The Lacedaemonians formed an alliance with the Athenians after the other allies refused the treaty.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
  • With: Philocharidas Menas
  • “Accordingly, after conference with the Athenian ambassadors, an alliance was agreed upon and oaths were exchanged, upon the terms following:”

Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 10

• with Brasidas (Ischagoras was bringing military support to Brasidas.) “The Lacedaemonian Ischagoras was just then upon the point of starting with an army overland to join Brasidas;”

Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 4

• with Menas (Co-envoys) “sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to the towns in the direction of Thrace”
• with Philocharidas (Co-envoys) “sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to the towns in the direction of Thrace”
• with Clearidas (Ischagoras was sent as an envoy to deliver the order to Clearidas.) “sent Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as envoys to the towns in the direction of Thrace, to order Clearidas to hand over Amphipolis to the Athenians”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.