Evagoras
Family: Cyprus · Role: ally of Athens · First appears: Book 2, section 1, part 2/2
In Book 2, Conon fled with eight ships to Cyprus to seek refuge with Evagoras. By B.C. 390, Athens was sending support to its ally: Philocrates sailed with ten triremes to aid Evagoras, but Teleutias captured the flotilla on its way to Cyprus. In Book 5, Chabrias also set out for Cyprus, bringing relief to Evagoras.
Relationship record
Life events
- Conon escaped with eight ships to seek refuge with Evagoras.(Book 2, section 1, part 2/2 · 📍 Cyprus)
- With: Conon
- “and then with eight ships set sail himself to seek refuge with Evagoras in Cyprus”
- On the voyage from Cnidus on to Rhodes, Teleutias captured Philocrates and the ten Athenian triremes sailing to Cyprus to aid Evagoras.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4)
- With: Teleutias Philocrates
- “The whole flotilla fell into the Spartan's hands--a curious instance, it may be added, of cross purposes on the part of both belligerents.”
Book 2, section 1, part 2/2
- with Conon (Conon sought refuge with Evagoras.) “For himself, knowing that the fortune of Athens was ruined, he put into Abarnis, the promontory of Lampsacus, and there picked up the great sails of Lysander's ships, and then with eight ships set sail himself to seek refuge with Evagoras in Cyprus”
Book 4, section 8, part 2/4
- with Teleutias (Teleutias captured the fleet sent to support Evagoras.) “Here were the Athenians, supposed to be on friendly terms with the king, engaged in sending an allied force to support Evagoras, who was at open war with him; and here again was Teleutias, the representative of a people at war with Persia, engaged in crippling a fleet which had been despatched on a mission hostile to their adversary.”
- with athens (The text identifies Evagoras as an ally of Athens.) “It was during this portion of the voyage that he fell in with Philocrates, the son of Ephialtes, who was sailing from Athens to Cyprus with ten triremes, in aid of their ally Evagoras.”
Book 5, section 1, part 1/3
- with Chabrias (Chabrias brought relief to Evagoras.) “It was after these events that Chabrias commenced his voyage to Cyprus, bringing relief to Evagoras.”
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