Athens — Minor Figures
15 figures from Pausanias' Description of Greece who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Herodes
dedicator · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 21
- Book 6 · Chapter 21 · with Proserpine “new statues of Proserpine and Demeter were erected in Pentelican marble by the Athenian Herodes”
- Book 6 · Chapter 21 · with Demeter “new statues of Proserpine and Demeter were erected in Pentelican marble by the Athenian Herodes”
Euryclides
orator · first appears Book 2 · Chapter 9
- Book 2 · Chapter 9 · with Philip (son of Demetrius) “And Philip acted in just the same way to Euryclides and Micon, who were Athenians: for them too, (being orators and not unpersuasive with the people), he took off by poison”
Adimantus
admiral · first appears Book 10 · Chapter 9
- Book 10 · Chapter 9 · with Lysander “their Admirals Tydeus and Adimantus were they say bribed by Lysander”
Olympiodorus
Athenian general · first appears Book 1 · Chapter 26
- Book 10 · Chapter 18 · with Cassander “the Phocians of Elatea, who held out against the siege of Cassander till Olympiodorus came from Athens to their relief”
- Book 10 · Chapter 34 · enemies with Cassander “And when Cassander blockaded Elatea, it was Olympiodorus who mainly rendered the blockade inoperative.”
Dinomenes (sculptor)
sculptor · first appears Book 1 · Chapter 25
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · with Io “statues by Dinomenes of Io the daughter of Inachus”
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · with Callisto “statues by Dinomenes of Io the daughter of Inachus, and Callisto the daughter of Lycaon”
Hegias
sculptor · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 42
- Book 8 · Chapter 42 · with Onatas “Onatas was therefore a contemporary of the Athenian Hegias and the Argive Ageladas.”
Isagoras
Athenian · first appears Book 3 · Chapter 4
- Book 3 · Chapter 4 · patron: Cleomenes (son of Anaxandrides) “but afterwards in his favour to an Athenian called Isagoras, tried to get for him the dominion over the Athenians.”
- Book 6 · Chapter 8 · with Timasitheus “For when Isagoras the Athenian occupied the Acropolis with the view of making himself master of Athens, Timasitheus joined him,”
Praxias
sculptor · first appears Book 10 · Chapter 19
- Book 10 · Chapter 19 · mentor: Calamis “The faces of all these are by the Athenian Praxias, the pupil of Calamis:”
Draco
lawgiver · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 11
- Book 6 · Chapter 11 · with Theagenes of Thasos “the Thasians threw the statue into the sea, obeying the code of Draco, who in legislating for the Athenians banished even inanimate things if they killed anyone by falling upon him.”
Androtion
historian · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 7
- Book 6 · Chapter 7 · with Dorieus (son of Diagoras) “The circumstances of the death of Dorieus are told by Androtion in his history of Attica, viz. that the fleet of the great king was at Caunus and Conon was the Admiral,”
Aristophon
pancratiast · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 13
- Book 6 · Chapter 13 · parent: Lycinus “The Athenian people also set up a statue to Aristophon the son of Lycinus”
- Book 6 · Chapter 14 · with Pherias “And Pherias the Æginetan, whose statue is next the Athenian Aristophon,”
Hybilides
archon · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 9
- Book 6 · Chapter 9 · with Tisicrates “when Hybilides was Archon at Athens, in the second year of the 72nd Olympiad, in which Tisicrates of Croton won the race in the stadium”
- Book 6 · Chapter 9 · with Gelon the tyrant of Sicily “Gelon the tyrant of Sicily was master of Syracuse when Hybilides was Archon at Athens”
Stadieus
sculptor · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 4
- Book 6 · Chapter 4 · pupil: Polycles “another Athenian statuary Polycles, the pupil of the Athenian Stadieus”
Euchir
sculptor · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 14
- Book 8 · Chapter 14 · parent: Eubulides “the Athenian Euchir the son of Eubulides”
Glaucon
charioteer · first appears Book 6 · Chapter 16
- Book 6 · Chapter 16 · parent: Eteocles (father of Glaucon) “the Athenian Glaucon (the son of Eteocles)”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.