Archias
Family: Thurian · Role: official · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 8
In Book 1, Chapter 8, Archias handed opponents of the Macedonians over to Antipater for punishment. Demosthenes was the only exile he did not hand over to Antipater and the Macedonians.
By Book 2, Chapter 26, Archias was identified as the son of Aristæchmus. After Æsculapius healed a convulsion that seized him while hunting near Pindasus, Archias introduced the god’s worship at Pergamum.
Relationship record
Life events
- Archias handed opponents of the Macedonians over to Antipater for punishment.(Book 1 · Chapter 8)
- With: Antipater (Macedonian statesman)
- “All who had opposed the Macedonians before the disaster which befel the Greeks in Thessaly, Archias handed over to Antipater for punishment.”
- After Æsculapius healed Archias’s convulsion, Archias introduced the god’s worship at Pergamum.(Book 2 · Chapter 26 · 📍 Pergamum)
- With: Æsculapius
- “Archias the son of Aristæchmus, being healed in Epidauria of a convulsion that seized him when he was hunting near Pindasus, introduced the worship of the god at Pergamum”
Book 1 · Chapter 8
- with Demosthenes (Archias did not hand Demosthenes over.) “he was the only exile who was not handed over to Antipater and the Macedonians by Archias”
- with Antipater (Macedonian statesman) (Archias handed opponents of the Macedonians over to Antipater.) “Archias handed over to Antipater for punishment”
- with Demosthenes (Archias did not hand Demosthenes over to Antipater.) “And he was the only exile who was not handed over to Antipater and the Macedonians by Archias.”
Book 2 · Chapter 26
- parent: Aristæchmus “also Archias the son of Aristæchmus, being healed in Epidauria of a convulsion”
- with Æsculapius (Archias was healed through the worship of Æsculapius.) “also Archias the son of Aristæchmus, being healed in Epidauria of a convulsion that seized him when he was hunting near Pindasus”
- with Æsculapius (interaction) “introduced the worship of the god at Pergamum”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.