Chaereas
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Chaereas son of Archestratus
in the texts
On the Estate of Philoctemon
Husband of Philoctemon's other sister (who bore him no children); the will of Philoctemon was deposited with him, and after his death his heir's consent was required to destroy Euctemon's later document.
He deposited his will with Chaereas, his brother-in-law, the husband of his other sister.
Phanostratus was on the point of setting out with Timotheus in command of a trireme, and his ship lying at anchor at Munychia, and his brother-in-law Chaereas was there bidding him farewell.
but, as Chaereas, who had been a party to its deposition, had left an only daughter, he suggested that it should be destroyed only in the presence of her legal representative, and the archon decided in favor of this course.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian aboard the state ship Paralus who escapes arrest at Athens and brings an exaggerated report back to Samos.
The ship Paralus, and Chaereas son of Archestratus on board of it—an Athenian who had been forward in the revolution—were sent by the Samians and the soldiers with all speed to Athens, to carry the news of what had taken place;
and when he saw the present state of things, he went back to Samos, and took the soldiers an exaggerated report of affairs at Athens, aggravating every thing, and telling them that they were punishing all with stripes, and it was impossible to speak a word against those who held the government;
Chaereas, by some means or other, immediately secreted himself;