Amompharetus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Amompharetus son of Poliades · leader of the Pitanate battalion
in the texts
The Histories
Spartan commander of the Pitanate battalion who refuses to withdraw from the barbarians, provoking a tense dispute with Pausanias and Euryanax, and is later ranked among the bravest at Plataea.
Thereupon, all the rest of the captains being ready to obey Pausanias, Amompharetus son of Poliades, the leader of the Pitanate battalion, refused to flee from the barbarians or (save by compulsion) bring shame on Sparta;
In this wrangling Amompharetus took up a stone with both hands and threw it down before Pausanias ' feet, crying that it was the pebble with which he voted against fleeing from the strangers (meaning thereby the barbarians).
there they buried their “irens,” among whom were Posidonius, Amompharetus, Philocyon, and Callicrates.
Aristides
Spartan company commander who refused to abandon his post during the night withdrawal before Plataea.
And when Pausanias came up and told him that their action had been formally voted by the Hellenes in council, Amompharetus picked up a great stone and threw it down at the feet of Pausanias, saying that was his personal ballot for battle, and he cared not a whit for the cowardly counsels and votes of the rest.
For Amompharetus, a man of a fierce and venturesome spirit, who had long been mad for battle and distressed by the many postponements and delays, now at last lost all control of himself, denounced the change of position as a runaway flight, and declared that he would not abandon his post, but stay there with his company and await the onset of Mardonius.