Archias

Family: Thebes · Role: polemarch · First appears: Pelopidas

As polemarch of Thebes, Archias employed Phillidas, who contrived to become secretary to Archias and Philip. Archias, Leontidas, and Philip were rich men of oligarchical principles who urged Phoebidas to surprise the Cadmea; he was opposed by Charon and Melon, who fought against Archias and Philip “having put on women's apparel over their breastplates.” Archias was also friends with his namesake, Archias the Hierophant of Athens, who was his friend and guest.

In the account involving Demosthenes, Archias was his enemy: after hearing that Demosthenes had taken sanctuary at the temple of Neptune in Calauria, he went there and tried to persuade him to accompany him to Antipater. Archias was counted among the disciples of Lacritus, and Polus of Aegina, the actor, was said to have been his scholar. In Aegina, he seized Hyperides, Aristonicus of Marathon, and Himeraeus by force from the temple of Aeacus.

Relationship record

Pelopidas

servant: Phillidas “Phillidas contrived to get himself made secretary to Archias and Philip, who then held the office of polemarch or chief captain”
enemies with Charon “Charon and Melon against Archias and Philip, having put on women's apparel over their breastplates”
enemies with Melon “Charon and Melon against Archias and Philip, having put on women's apparel over their breastplates”
with Leontidas (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan”
with Philip (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan”
with Phoebidas (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan, as he was on his way past the city with a considerable force, to surprise the Cadmea”
with Phoebidas (interaction) “Therefore Archias, Leontidas, and Philip, all rich men, and of oligarchical principles, and immoderately ambitious, urged Phoebidas the Spartan”
friends with Archias the Hierophant “a messenger came with a letter from one Archias, the Hierophant at Athens, to his namesake Archias, who was his friend and guest.”

Demosthenes

enemies with Demosthenes “Demosthenes, he heard, had taken sanctuary at the temple of Neptune in Calauria, and, crossing over thither in some light vessels, as soon as he had landed himself, and the Thracian spear-men that came with him, he endeavored to persuade Demosthenes to accompany him to Antipater”
pupil: Polus of Aegina “they say that Polus, of Aegina, the best actor of his time, was his scholar”
mentor: Lacritus “Hermippus reckons Archias among the disciples of Lacritus, the orator,”
with Hyperides (interaction) “This Archias finding Hyperides the orator, Aristonicus of Marathon, and Himeraeus, the brother of Demetrius the Phalerian, in Aegina, took them by force out of the temple of Aeacus,”
with Aristonicus of Marathon (interaction) “This Archias finding Hyperides the orator, Aristonicus of Marathon, and Himeraeus, the brother of Demetrius the Phalerian, in Aegina, took them by force out of the temple of Aeacus,”
with Himeraeus (interaction) “This Archias finding Hyperides the orator, Aristonicus of Marathon, and Himeraeus, the brother of Demetrius the Phalerian, in Aegina, took them by force out of the temple of Aeacus,”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.