Eurymachus
historical figure · 6 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Eurymachus son of Leontiades · Eurymachus the Dardanian · Eurymachus, the son of Leontiadas
spoken of as
1 expressionEurymachus the Dardanian1 mention
Anabasis (Greek)
and along with them Timasion the Dardanian sent Eurymachus the Dardanian and Thorax the Boeotian to tell the same story.
in the texts
Orations
Suitor challenged by Odysseus to a contest of reaping and ploughing.
and indeed, his father being a farmer, very careful and experienced, it was natural that he should not be ignorant of these things—seeing that he even challenges Eurymachus both to reap and to plough.
whereas Antinous and Eurymachus, whom Homer called kings, were wretched and ill-fated.
On the Mysteries
A person denounced by Teucrus in the Hermae matter.
Euctemon, Glaucippus, Eurymachus, Polyeuctus, Plato, Antidorus, Charippus, Theodorus, Alcisthenes, Menestratus, Eryximachus, Euphiletus, Eurydamas, Pherecles, Meletus, Timanthes, Archidamus, Telenicus.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The Theban Boeotarch, son of Leontiadas, through whom Archidamus arranged the night seizure of Plataea.
He did this from Thebes, through the agency of Eurymachus, the son of Leontiadas, the Boeotarch, and the gates were opened at night by Naucleides and some accomplices of his, who had been won over by bribes.
The Histories
Son of Leontiades who, long after Thermopylae, was killed by the Plataeans while commanding Thebans who seized Plataea.
His son Eurymachus long afterwards was murdered by the Plataeans when, as general of four hundred Thebans, he seized the town of Plataea.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Influential Theban through whom the Plataean traitors negotiated the surrender of their city; later captured and executed by the Plataeans.
They carried on these negotiations through Eurymachus, the son of Leontiades, a very influential person at Thebes.
Those who had been taken were one hundred and eighty, and Eurymachus, with whom the traitors had negotiated, was one of them.
Anabasis
Dardanian messenger sent to tell the Sinopeans and Heracleots that the army might remain in Pontus.
and along with them Timasion the Dardanian sent Eurymachus the Dardanian and Thorax the Boeotian to tell the same story.