Cratæmenes

Family: Samian · Role: leader · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 23

Life events

• Cratæmenes and Perieres established a fort and made Zancle their headquarters for expeditions.(Book 4 · Chapter 23 · 📍 Zancle)
  • With: Perieres
  • “they built a fort near the harbour, and made Zancle their headquarters for expeditions both by land and sea: and their leaders were Cratæmenes the Samian and Perieres from Chalcis.”
• The colonists changed the town's name from Zancle to Messene.(Book 4 · Chapter 23 · 📍 Messene)
  • With: Gorgus Manticlus Perieres
  • “But the name of the town they changed from Zancle to Messene.”

Book 4 · Chapter 23

• with Perieres (They were co-leaders of the settlement.) “and their leaders were Cratæmenes the Samian and Perieres from Chalcis.”

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