Pausanias' Description of Greece

Pytharatus

Family: Messenian · Role: commander · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 7

Life events

  • Pytharatus dies, leaving the Messenian wing disordered and dejected.(Book 4 · Chapter 8)
    • “But the other wing of the Messenians was hard pressed, for Pytharatus their General was dead, and without a leader they became disordered and dejected.”

Book 4 · Chapter 7

  • enemies with Polydorus (son of Alcamenes) (Polydorus and Pytharatus commanded opposing wings.) “And opposite the right wing of the Lacedæmonians were the Messenians under Antander and Euphaes, and on the wing opposite Polydorus under Pytharatus, and in the centre under Cleonnis”

Also listed in Messenian — Minor Figures

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