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.
of his two sisters one, who was the wife of Chaereas, had no son and had never had one, though she had been married for many years;
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.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian aboard the state ship Paralus who escapes arrest at Athens and brings an exaggerated report back to Samos.
with many other false statements which he made beside.
Chaereas, by some means or other, immediately secreted himself;
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;