Onomarchus

Family: Phocians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 2

Life events

• The Phocians appointed Onomarchus as their commander.(Book 10 · Chapter 2)
  • “And after the death of Philomelus the Phocians gave the command to Onomarchus”
• Onomarchus was killed by his own soldiers after the defeat.(Book 10 · Chapter 2)
  • “Onomarchus fled in the direction of the sea, and was there shot by the arrows of his own soldiers”

Book 10 · Chapter 2

• siblings with Phayllus (Phayllus is Onomarchus's brother.) “the Phocians chose his brother Phayllus as commander in chief with unlimited power”

Also listed in Phocians — Minor Figures

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