Tolmaeus

Family: Athenian · Role: father of Autocles · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3

Tolmaeus was the father of Tolmides, who led an Athenian expedition around the Peloponnese that burnt Lacedaemon’s arsenal, captured Chaeronea and enslaved its inhabitants, and later withdrew from Boeotia under a treaty after the defeat at Coronea. By Book 4, Autocles, also identified as his son, served as a commander under Nicias.

Relationship record

Life events

• Tolmides led an Athenian expedition that burnt Lacedaemon’s arsenal.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
  • With: Tolmides
  • “The Athenians sailed round Peloponnese under Tolmides, son of Tolmaeus, burnt the arsenal of Lacedaemon”
• The Athenians captured Chaeronea and enslaved its inhabitants.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 4 · 📍 Chaeronea)
  • With: Tolmides
  • “They took Chaeronea, and made slaves of the inhabitants, and, leaving a garrison, commenced their return.”
• After their defeat at Coronea, the Athenians evacuated Boeotia under a treaty, and the exiled Boeotians regained independence.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 4 · 📍 Boeotia)
  • With: Tolmides
  • “The Athenians evacuated all Boeotia by a treaty providing for the recovery of the men; and the exiled Boeotians returned, and with all the rest regained their independence.”

Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3

• child: Tolmides “The Athenians sailed round Peloponnese under Tolmides, son of Tolmaeus, burnt the arsenal of Lacedaemon, took Chalcis, a town of the Corinthians, and in a descent upon Sicyon defeated the Sicyonians in battle.”

Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 4

• child: Tolmides “under the command of Tolmides, son of Tolmaeus.”

Book 4 · Chapter 13 · Part 2

• child: Autocles “under the command of Nicias, son of Niceratus, Nicostratus, son of Diotrephes, and Autocles, son of Tolmaeus.”

Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 7

• child: Autocles “Autocles, son of Tolmaeus”

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