Eucles
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Mysteries
Witness called by Andocides concerning the Council inquiry into the bough.
Now, Eucles, testify whether these facts are correct to start with.
When Eucles informed the Council that there had been no response, Callias rose once more and said that under an ancient law, as officially interpreted on a former occasion by his father, Hipponicus, the penalty for placing a bough in the Eleusinium during the Mysteries was instant death.
Evidence
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian general sent from Athens to defend Amphipolis, who appeals for relief from Thucydides.
In the mean time, the party opposed to the traitors, prevailing by their numbers to prevent the gates being immediately thrown open, sent with Eucles the general, who had come to them from Athens to defend the place, to the other commander Thrace-ward, Thucydides son of Olorus, the historian of this war, who was at Thasos, (this island is a colony of the Parians, distant from Amphipolis about half …