Manticlus

Family: Messenian · Role: son of Theoclus · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 21

At Eira, Manticlus rushed to defend the walls alongside his father, Theoclus, and other Messenian leaders. The next morning, as Aristomenes ordered a retreat, he appointed Manticlus and Gorgus to lead the withdrawing women and children.

In Book 4, Chapter 23, Aristomenes declined to lead a colony and appointed Gorgus and Manticlus its leaders. After Anaxilas conveyed the Messenians to Sicily, Manticlus and Gorgus pleaded with him not to force them to harm the suppliants of Zancle. The suppliants were taken from the altars, and the two peoples pledged to live together; the town was renamed Messene. Manticlus built a temple of Hercules for the colony, with a statue outside the fort called Hercules Manticlus.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Messenian leaders rushed to defend Eira after the enemy entered the walls.(Book 4 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Eira)
  • With: Gorgus Aristomenes Theoclus Euergetidas
  • “The first who noticed that the enemy had got inside the walls, and who rushed up to the fray, were Gorgus the son of Aristomenes, and Aristomenes himself, and Theoclus the seer and Manticlus his son, and with them Euergetidas”
• Aristomenes ordered a retreat and appointed Gorgus and Manticlus to lead the withdrawing women and children.(Book 4 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Eira)
  • With: Aristomenes Gorgus
  • “To the command of this portion of the army he appointed Gorgus and Manticlus: and himself took up a position in the front rank”
• Aristomenes refused to found the colony and appointed Gorgus and Manticlus its leaders.(Book 4 · Chapter 23)
  • With: Aristomenes Gorgus
  • “But he said that for his part as long as he lived he would fight against the Lacedæmonians, and that he knew very well that Sparta would always have trouble through him: but he gave them Gorgus and Manticlus as their leaders.”
• Anaxilas conveyed the Messenians to Sicily after they accepted his offer of land and assistance.(Book 4 · Chapter 23 · 📍 Sicily)
  • With: Anaxilas Gorgus
  • “And as they eagerly accepted his offer, Anaxilas conveyed them over into Sicily.”
• Gorgus and Manticlus prevented the slaughter of Zancle's suppliants, enabling both peoples to dwell together.(Book 4 · Chapter 23 · 📍 Zancle)
  • With: Gorgus Anaxilas
  • “And after that they took the people of Zancle from the altars, and having mutually given and received pledges dwelt together as one people.”
• The colonists changed the town's name from Zancle to Messene.(Book 4 · Chapter 23 · 📍 Messene)
  • With: Gorgus Cratæmenes Perieres
  • “But the name of the town they changed from Zancle to Messene.”
• Manticlus built a temple of Hercules and placed a statue outside the colony's fort.(Book 4 · Chapter 23)
  • With: Hercules
  • “And Manticlus built a temple of Hercules for the new colony, and a statue of the god was placed outside the fort called Hercules Manticlus”

Book 4 · Chapter 21

• parent: Theoclus (Theoclus is Manticlus's father.) “Theoclus the seer and Manticlus his son”
• with Aristomenes (Aristomenes appointed Manticlus to command a portion of the army.) “To the command of this portion of the army he appointed Gorgus and Manticlus”

Book 4 · Chapter 23

• with Aristomenes (Aristomenes appointed Manticlus as a leader.) “but he gave them Gorgus and Manticlus as their leaders.”
• with Anaxilas (Manticlus opposed Anaxilas's demand to treat the people of Zancle cruelly.) “But Gorgus and Manticlus begged that Anaxilas would not compel them, who had been shamefully treated by their fellow-countrymen, to act with equal cruelty to Greeks.”
• with Hercules (Manticlus built a temple dedicated to Hercules.) “And Manticlus built a temple of Hercules for the new colony, and a statue of the god was placed outside the fort called Hercules Manticlus”

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