Diophanes

Family: Achaeans · Role: general · First appears: Philopoemen

Life events

• Philopoemen rescued the Lacedaemonians and barred Diophanes and Titus from Sparta.(Comparison of Philopoemen with Flamininus · 📍 Sparta)
  • With: Philopoemen Titus
  • “he was also a private citizen when he rescued the Lacedaemonians, and shut the gates of Sparta against the General Diophanes, and Titus.”

Philopoemen

• with Philopoemen (interaction) “Philopoemen on this occasion did all he could to keep Diophanes quiet and to make him sensible that as the times went, while Antiochus and the Romans were disputing their pretensions with vast armies in the heart of Greece, it concerned a man in his position to keep a watchful eye over them,”

Flamininus

• rivals with Titus Quintius Flamininus “if he were at any time at variance with anybody in matters of business, or out of emulation and rivalry, (as with Philopoemen, and again with Diophanes, when in office as General of the Achaeans,)”

Comparison of Philopoemen with Flamininus

• enemies with Philopoemen “he rescued the Lacedaemonians, and shut the gates of Sparta against the General Diophanes, and Titus.”

Tiberius Gracchus

• pupil: Tiberius Gracchus “Tiberius, being elected tribune of the people, entered upon that design without delay, at the instigation, as is most commonly stated, of Diophanes, the rhetorician”
• with Tiberius Gracchus (interaction) “at the instigation, as is most commonly stated, of Diophanes, the rhetorician, and Blossius, the philosopher”

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