Diogenes
Family: Boeotian · Role: Governor of the Forts · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 8
In Book 2, Chapter 8, Aratus the son of Clinias persuaded Diogenes, Governor of the Forts, to surrender them for 150 talents. By Book 10, Chapter 20, Diogenes was named among the Bœotarchs, alongside Cephisodotus, Thearidas and Lysander, leading a Bœotian force against the Galati.
At Thermopylæ, the Greek contingents gathered against the Galati. Diogenes was with Cephisodotus, Thearidas and Lysander when the Greeks sent troops to Sperchius, destroyed its bridges and camped beside the river. After the Galati crossed the river, the Greek detachment returned to the main army.
Relationship record
Life events
- Greek contingents banded together at Thermopylæ against the Galati.(Book 10 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Thermopylæ)
- With: Cephisodotus Thearidas Lysander Critobulus Antiochus (Phocian commander) Polyarchus Polyphron Lacrates Callippus Aristodemus (the Macedonian) Telesarchus
- “And now against these barbarians who had crossed the ocean the following Greeks banded themselves at Thermopylæ:”
- The Greeks sent troops to Sperchius, destroyed its bridges, and encamped beside the river.(Book 10 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Sperchius)
- With: Cephisodotus Thearidas Lysander
- “And they went and destroyed the bridges, and encamped by the river.”
- Galati troops crossed the Sperchius by swimming, fording, and using shields as rafts.(Book 10 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Sperchius)
- With: Cephisodotus Thearidas Lysander
- “They crossed over accordingly, swimming over the marshy part of the river, and using the shields of their country as a sort of raft, while the tallest of them could ford the river.”
- The Greek detachment returned to the main army after noticing the Galati crossing.(Book 10 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Sperchius)
- With: Cephisodotus Thearidas Lysander
- “When the Greeks at the Sperchius noticed that part of the barbarians had crossed over, they returned at once to the main army.”
Book 2 · Chapter 8
- with Aratus the son of Clinias (Aratus persuaded Diogenes to surrender the forts.) “he persuaded Diogenes, who was Governor of these Forts, to surrender them for 150 talents”
Book 10 · Chapter 20
- with Cephisodotus (co-commanders) “10,000 heavy armed infantry and 500 horse from Bœotia, under the Bœotarchs Cephisodotus and Thearidas and Diogenes and Lysander”
- with Thearidas (co-commanders) “10,000 heavy armed infantry and 500 horse from Bœotia, under the Bœotarchs Cephisodotus and Thearidas and Diogenes and Lysander”
- with Lysander (co-commanders) “10,000 heavy armed infantry and 500 horse from Bœotia, under the Bœotarchs Cephisodotus and Thearidas and Diogenes and Lysander”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.