Damagon

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: founder of Heraclea · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 1

About this time, Damagon joined Leon and Alcidas as one of the three Lacedaemonians leading the founding of Heraclea. After the settlement was established, they fortified the city, which was then called Heraclea. The Lacedaemonian governors’ harsh and sometimes unfair rule drove away most of the inhabitants, weakening the colony and making it easier for its neighbours to prevail against them.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Lacedaemonians founded Heraclea and fortified the settlement.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 1 · 📍 Heraclea)
  • With: Leon, founder of Heraclea Alcidas
  • “The settlement effected, they fortified anew the city, now called Heraclea”
• Lacedaemonian governors' harsh and unfair rule drove away most inhabitants and weakened the colony.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 1 · 📍 Heraclea)
  • With: Leon, founder of Heraclea Alcidas
  • “as they frightened away the greater part of the inhabitants by governing harshly and in some cases not fairly, and thus made it easier for their neighbours to prevail against them.”

Book 3 · Chapter 11 · Part 1

• with Leon, founder of Heraclea (Both are named among the founders of the colony.) “three Lacedaemonians leading as founders of the colony, Leon, Alcidas, and Damagon”
• with Alcidas (Both are named among the founders of the colony.) “three Lacedaemonians leading as founders of the colony, Leon, Alcidas, and Damagon”

Also listed in Lacedaemonian — Minor Figures

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