Macarius
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters
Co-addressee of Letter 18, encouraged about hope amid affliction.
To Macarius and John
and at Myra the presbyters Tatianus and Polemo and Macarius;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan co-commander of the relief force who dies alongside Eurylochus at Olpae.
Eurylochus, a Spartan, had the command of the force, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaeus, who were also Spartans;
The next day Menedaeus, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command, was at a loss, since so great a defeat had been experienced, to see in what way he should either remain and sustain a siege—cut off as he was by land, and at the same time, through the presence of the Athenian fleet, by sea—or should escape if he retreated.