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Tango01  | 09 Mar 2025 5:07 p.m. PST |
… Led His City to Both Victory and Defeat
"LARGELY A forgotten figure today, the ancient Greek statesman and general Chares played a critical role in the military fortunes of Athens in the 4th century BCE. In his time, he brought Athens both glory and defeat through decades of military service and the undertaking of numerous foreign expeditions. At the height of his power, he won a great victory over the Persians which he himself dubbed "a sister of Marathon." His former triumphs were in the end overshadowed by the rise of Macedon and his catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE.
Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE was Athens' first great victory over the invading Persians. Chares would dub his own Persian triumph as "a sister of Marathon." We know nothing of Chare's childhood; only that he was the son of a man named Theochares. The ancient biographer Plutarch writes that the Chares in his youth was "a vigorous and stout-bodied young man." (Plutarch, Whether an Aged Man Ought to Meddle in State Affairs…"
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