Autocharidas

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 2

About the same time, Autocharidas led nine hundred heavy infantry toward Thrace with Ramphias and Epicydidas. At Heraclea in Trachis, the three reformed matters as they saw fit. With the beginning of the following winter, after the Thessalians blocked their advance and Brasidas was dead, they turned back home.

Relationship record

Life events

• The three Lacedaemonians arrived with a reinforcement and reformed matters at Heraclea.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 2 · 📍 Heraclea in Trachis)
  • With: Ramphias Epicydidas
  • “arriving at Heraclea in Trachis reformed matters there as seemed good to them.”
• After the Thessalians blocked their advance, the three commanders turned back home.(Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 2 · 📍 Pierium in Thessaly)
  • With: Ramphias Epicydidas
  • “but as the Thessalians opposed their further advance, and Brasidas whom they came to reinforce was dead, they turned back home”

Book 5 · Chapter 15 · Part 2

• with Ramphias (They jointly led a military reinforcement.) “About the same time three Lacedaemonians—Ramphias, Autocharidas, and Epicydidas—led a reinforcement of nine hundred heavy infantry to the towns in the direction of Thrace,”
• with Epicydidas (They jointly led a military reinforcement.) “About the same time three Lacedaemonians—Ramphias, Autocharidas, and Epicydidas—led a reinforcement of nine hundred heavy infantry to the towns in the direction of Thrace,”

Also listed in Lacedaemonian — Minor Figures

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