Eupompides

Family: Plataean · Role: general · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 3

During the siege of Plataea, Eupompides, son of Daimachus and one of the Plataean generals, joined Theaenetus in proposing that the besieged Plataeans escape over the enemy’s walls. On a stormy, wet night, about two hundred and twenty Plataeans made the crossing in a raid; the account says “it was mainly the violence of the storm that enabled them to effect their escape at all.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Theaenetus and Eupompides proposed that the besieged Plataeans attempt to escape over the enemy's walls.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 3)
  • With: Theaenetus Tolmides Daimachus
  • “the attempt having been suggested by Theaenetus, son of Tolmides, a soothsayer, and Eupompides, son of Daimachus, one of their generals.”
• About two hundred and twenty Plataeans escaped over the enemy's wall in a night raid.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 3)
  • With: Theaenetus Tolmides Daimachus Ammias Coroebus
  • “However, it was mainly the violence of the storm that enabled them to effect their escape at all.”

Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 3

• parent: Daimachus “the attempt having been suggested by Theaenetus, son of Tolmides, a soothsayer, and Eupompides, son of Daimachus, one of their generals.”
• with Theaenetus (Co-suggested the escape attempt.) “the attempt having been suggested by Theaenetus, son of Tolmides, a soothsayer, and Eupompides, son of Daimachus, one of their generals.”

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