Gylis
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Gylis, the polemarch
in the texts
Agesilaus
Polemarch ordered by Agesilaus to arrange the army and victory rites after Coronea.
Early next morning Agesilaus ordered Gylis, the polemarch, to draw up the army in battle order and to set up a trophy, and to command every man to wear a wreath in honour of the god and all the flute-players to play.
Hellenica
Spartan polemarch who oversees the trophy at Coronea and is later killed during a raid into Locris.
And in the morning Agesilaus gave orders that Gylis, the polemarch, should draw up the army in line of battle and set up a trophy, that all should deck themselves with garlands in honour of the god, and that all the flute-players should play.
but since darkness was coming on and, as they were retiring from the pursuit, some of them fell on account of the roughness of the country, others because they could not see what was ahead of them, and still others from the missiles of the enemy, under these circumstances Gylis, the polemarch, and Pelles, one of his comrades, were slain, and in all about eighteen of the Spartiatae, some by being s …