Derdas

Family: Elimia · Role: ruler · First appears: Book 5, section 2, part 3/3

During the campaign against Olynthus, Teleutias sent a warning to Derdas, ruler of Elimia, that Olynthian power threatened him too unless it was checked by force. At Olynthus, Derdas’s cavalry charge helped drive the Olynthian forces back inside the city.

In B.C. 381, at Apollonia, Derdas routed the Olynthian cavalry and pursued them to Olynthus; reports said he killed about eighty men. He and Amyntas also volunteered with exceptional zeal for Agesipolis’s campaign, eager to become known to him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Derdas's cavalry charge helped drive the Olynthian forces back inside their city.(Book 5, section 2, part 3/3 · 📍 Olynthus)
  • With: Teleutias
  • “Thus it was that Derdas had his chance to cut down man after man as their cavalry ran the gauntlet past him. In the same way, too, the infantry of the Olynthians retreated within their city”
• Derdas routed the Olynthian cavalry and pursued them to Olynthus, reportedly killing about eighty men.(Book 5, section 3, part 1/2 · 📍 Apollonia)
  • “Having once turned them, Derdas gave them no respite, pursuing and slaughtering them for ten miles or more, until he had driven them for shelter within the very ramparts of Olynthus. Report said that Derdas slew something like eighty men in this affair.”
• Amyntas and Derdas volunteered with exceptional zeal for Agesipolis’s campaign.(Book 5, section 3, part 1/2)
  • With: Amyntas
  • “All were animated by the desire of becoming known to Agesipolis, so that even Amyntas and Derdas in zeal of service outdid themselves.”

Book 5, section 2, part 3/3

• with Teleutias (Teleutias sent Derdas a message urging resistance to the Olynthians.) “He sent also to Derdas, the ruler of Elimia, pointing out to him that the Olynthians, having laid at their feet the great power of Macedonia, would certainly not suffer his lesser power to escape unless they were stayed up by force in arms in their career of insolence.”

Book 5, section 3, part 1/2

• with Agesipolis (Derdas served with zeal in the force led by Agesipolis.) “All were animated by the desire of becoming known to Agesipolis, so that even Amyntas and Derdas in zeal of service outdid themselves.”

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