Polyarchus
Family: Aetolian · Role: commander · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 8
In Book 10, Chapter 8, Polyarchus is named as the father of Panyasis. By Chapter 20, he is one of the commanders of the Ætolians, alongside Polyphron and Lacrates, when Greek contingents gather at Thermopylæ against the Galati.
Relationship record
Life events
- Greek contingents banded together at Thermopylæ against the Galati.(Book 10 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Thermopylæ)
- With: Cephisodotus Thearidas Diogenes Lysander Critobulus Antiochus (Phocian commander) Polyphron Lacrates Callippus Aristodemus (the Macedonian) Telesarchus
- “And now against these barbarians who had crossed the ocean the following Greeks banded themselves at Thermopylæ:”
Book 10 · Chapter 8
- child: Panyasis (Polyarchus is Panyasis's father.) “But Panyasis, the son of Polyarchus, in the poem he wrote about Hercules says that Castalia was the daughter of Achelous.”
Book 10 · Chapter 20
- with Polyphron (co-commanders) “And the Ætolians were under the command of Polyarchus and Polyphron and Lacrates.”
- with Lacrates (co-commanders) “And the Ætolians were under the command of Polyarchus and Polyphron and Lacrates.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.