Proxenus

Family: Syracusans · Role: Hermocrates's brother · First appears: Book 1, section 3

In Book 1, section 3, Proxenus is identified as Hermocrates’s brother and is named among those accompanying a Lacedaemonian embassy. Pharnabazus puts himself at the head of the embassy.

Relationship record

Book 1, section 3

• siblings with Hermocrates “An embassy of the Lacedaemonians was also about to make the journey. This consisted of Pasippidas and his fellows, with whom were Hermocrates, now an exile from Syracuse, and his brother Proxenus.”
• with Pharnabazus (Proxenus accompanied the embassy Pharnabazus led.) “An embassy of the Lacedaemonians was also about to make the journey. This consisted of Pasippidas and his fellows, with whom were Hermocrates, now an exile from Syracuse, and his brother Proxenus. So Pharnabazus put himself at their head.”

Also listed in Syracusan — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Hellenica. Made with Rho MD.