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Headword:
*brasi/das
Adler number: beta,519
Translated headword: Brasidas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The son of Tellis,[1] a general of [the] Lakedaimonians. When
Methone went over to the Athenian side, he waged war against it and restored it [sc. to the Spartans].[2] He also distinguished himself as a general at
Pylos,[3] being the first to leap from the ship. There he was also wounded and lost his shield. After these events a year-long truce resulted, which the Athenians were the first to break. Because he was popular in
Amphipolis and Thrace they registered him as their city-founder in place of Hagnon.[4] The war, up until the deaths of Brasidas and Kleon,[5] lasted ten years, and was called the Archidamian.[6]
'[Attacking] on the pretense that one favors Brasidas' side.'[7] Meaning that of the Lakedaimonians' side.
*brasi/das, o( *te/llidos, *lakedaimoni/wn strathgo\s, *meqw/nhn a)posta=san pro\s *)aqhnai/ous polemh/sas a)nekale/sato. h)ri/steuse de\ kai\ peri\ *pu/lon strathgw=n, prw=tos th=s nho\s e)kphdh/sas: ou(= kai\ e)trw/qh kai\ th\n a)spi/da a)pw/lesen: e)pi\ tou/tois spondai\ e)ge/nonto e)niau/sioi, a(\s *)aqhnai=oi lu/ein h)/rcanto. peri\ de\ *)amfi/polin kai\ *qra/|khn eu)dokimou=nta au)to\n oi)kisth\n a)nti\ *(/agnwnos e)pegra/yanto. o( de\ po/lemos o( me/xri th=s *brasi/da kai\ *kle/wnos teleuth=s e)/th e)pe/sxe de/ka, e)klh/qh de\ *)arxida/mios. ai)ti/as de\ peri\ au)tou= prostiqe/ntes, w(s fronei= ta\ *brasi/da. a)nti\ tou= tw=n *lakedaimoni/wn.
Notes:
C5 BCE (died 422). See generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.248). The source(s) of the present mini-biography of him (ending at 'the Archidamian') cannot be identified.
[1] Tellis is attested as one of the Spartan signatories to the Peace of
Nikias in 421 (
Thucydides 5.19.2). Brasidas' mother was named Argileonis (
Plutarch,
Moralia 240C).
[2] Contrary to the impression given here,
Methone never revolted against
Sparta. It was a perioikic town on the Messenian coast, which an Athenian naval expedition raided in 431, the first year of the Peloponnesian War. Brasidas, who happened to be nearby, rushed to the town with one hundred hoplites and managed to save it from capture by the Athenians (Thuc. 2.25.2.). In the following year, possibly as a result of his services at
Methone, Brasidas was chosen as eponymous ephor at
Sparta (
Xenophon,
Hellenica 2.3.10;
Diodorus Siculus 12.43.2).
[3] A site on the west coast of
Messenia, which an Athenian force occupied in 425. The Spartans and their allies initially attempted to dislodge the Athenians with an amphibious landing, but were repulsed despite Brasidas' heroics (Thuc. 4.11f).
[4] Hagnon was the original Athenian founder of the strategic colony at
Amphipolis in 437 (Thuc. 4.102). Brasidas captured the town from the Athenians in 424 (Thuc. 4.103-7); cf.
epsilon 2026.
[5] Brasidas and Kleon (
kappa 1731), his counterpart for belligerence on the Athenian side, were both killed in the battle of
Amphipolis in 422 (Thuc. 5.2f, 6-11), and the "Peace of
Nicias" in the following year caused a temporary cessation of hostilities.
[6] After Archidamos II, king of
Sparta, who led the first Spartan and allied invasion of Attica in 431. See
alpha 4108.
[7] An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Peace 640, with comment from the
scholia there.
Der Neue Pauly, Band 2, pp.760-1
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Translated by: John Hyland on 7 April 2000@21:42:16.
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