M..... (1)

BEFORE 195 BC

• IG V 1. 1295
• Name in a catalogue from Oetylus

M— (2)

I BC

• IG V 1. 49
• Eponymous patronomos

M...........

REIGN OF ANTONINUS PIUS

• Steinhauer, BSA 93, pp. 427-447, #5b, plate 73b, restores the name (a very short one) of the patronomos from IG V. 111 (= SEG XI 584), a gerousias named C. Julius Neas.
• Steinhauer suggests that this might be either Mnason Lysippou or Marcus Neikephorou.
• Gerousias in the year of C. J[ulius Neas]

Μα—

• IG V 1. 523
• Son of —os
• Boagos
• Hierone[ikes]

Μακάριος

MID V BC

• Poralla 508; Thucydides III 100, 109
• A Spartiate—in the Winter 426/25 he took part in a campaign against Naupactus and Acarnania and fell at Olpai together with Eurylochos.

Μακέδω[ν] (1)

• IG V 1. 616
• Father of Ath[enion] (1)

Μακέδων (2)

• Rizakis 524a; IG V 1. 176
• Father of Claudianus

Μαλαυh[ίδ]ας

V BC

• Poralla 509; IG V 1. 1337
• Son of Nikolochos
• Inscription from Gerenia of the fifth century

Μανδροκλείδας

IV\III BC

• Plutarch Pyrrhus 26.24 (cf. Moralia < apophthegmata Laconica > 219F)^a; Agis 6.3-4^b, 9.1, 12.1^c; V. Ehrenberg, "Mandrokleidas (1-2)," RE XXVII 1040
• Son of Ekphanes^b
• Envoy to Pyrrhus, 272 BC^a
• Supporter and adviser of Agis IV^bc

Μαντε—, see M(ᾶρκος) Ἀντ(ώνιος) Ἐ— (1)?

Μαντικλῆς

I BC

• IG V 1. 209
• Son of Sosikrates (17)
• Glypheus in the year of Nikok[le]s (7)

Μάξιμος

REIGN OF TRAJAN

• Rizakis 536; SEG XI 512
• Karyx for the ephors in the year of C. Julius Kleandros (5), AD 99/100

Μαρδόν[ιος]

II BC

• SEG XI 856 (It must be confessed that this is an odd name for a Spartan.)
• Made a marble pool

Μάρθα

II-III AD

• SEG XIV 637
• Lacedaemonian
• Jewish? or Christian?
• Gravemarker in Italy

Μᾶρκος (1)

MID II AD

• Rizakis 533; IG V 1. 109; (SEG XI 588)
• Son of Damokrates (32)
• Gerousias in the year of Timomenes (1), ca. AD 142-145/6

Μᾶρκος (2)

MID II AD

• Rizakis 534; IG V 1. 111 (cf. SEG XI 564)^a; SEG XI 585^b; [Steinhauer,
• BSA 93, pp. 427-447]^c; Bradford, Chiron 10, 1980, 423
• Son of Neikephoros (24)^[a]bc
• Gerousias in the year of Biadas^b, AD 153/4
• [Gerousias] in the year of [C]la[udiu]s Sejanus^a, AD 154/5
• Gerousias (? for the third time) in the year of Anonymus^c

Μᾶρκος (3)

I AD

• Rizakis 531; SEG XI 948
• Lacedaemonian stonecutter (ἐποίει)

Μᾶρκος (4)

I\II AD

• Rizakis 527; IG V 1. 59, 157 (cf. SEG XI 522) 1315; SEG XI 575; Steinhauer, BSA 93, pp. 427-447, #3, plate 72a, #8, plate 75a, #14,
• Plate 78A
• Father of [C. Ju(lius)?] Nikephoros (4)
• Stemma:
• Markos (4)
• |
• Neikephoros (4) – fl. 110-140 = Neikephoros (24)
• |
• Markos (2) – fl. 150’s

Μᾶρκος (5)

I\II AD

• Rizakis 528; IG V 1. 154
• Father of Zosimos (1)

Μᾶρκος

REIGN OF ANTONINUS PIUS

• Rizakis 532; Steinhauer, BSA 93, pp. 427-447, #4, plate 72b
• Son of Daikrates
• Gerousias for the third time in the year of P. Mem(mius) Eudamos

Μάρων

VI\V BC

• Poralla 510; Herodotus VII 227; Pausanias III 12.9
• Son of Orsiphantes and brother of Alpheios
• He fell in 480 fighting bravely at Thermopylae and therefore had a
• memorial at Sparta with his brother.

Μαρώνιος

• Rizakis 535a; IG V 1. 1349
• Father of Panto, a Jew

Μασανίσσος

I BC-II AD

• Rudolf Münsterberg, Die Beamtennamen auf den griechischen Münzen, Hildesheim, 1973 (Laconia) page 55 (T. E. Mionnet, Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, Paris, 1806-13, II 217)
• A name (in error for Machanidas?) on a Lacedaemonian coin
• Μαχαιρίων, Poralla 510a, cf. Ἀντικράτης

Μαχανίδας

END III BC

• Livy XXVII 29.9^a; XXVIII 5.5^b, 7.14 & 17^c, 8.3^d; [XXXIV 26.14; XXXVIII 34.8]; Polybius X 41.2^e; XI 11-18^f; XIII 6.1; Plutarch Philopoemen 10^g, 12.4; Pausanias IV 29.10; VIII 50.2^h; IG V 1. 236 (dedication); SEG XI 492 ([gymnasium] named after him); V. Ehrenberg, "Machanidas," RE, XXVII 142
• He became regent for Pelops (1), when Lykourgos (1), Pelops' father, died, ca. 211. Although Machanidas is called a tyrant in the sources, it is clear that Pelops was king (Livy XXXIV 32.1).
• Machanidas waged war on the Achaean League as an ally of Aetolia (and Rome)^abcdef and was killed in battle, 207 BC^fgh

MI—

• IG V 1. 118 (I = E, H, I, or N)
• Father of —enios (Fragment 78)

Μεγαλίας

V BC

• Poralla 511; IG V 1. 1337
• Name on an inscription of the fifth century from Gerenia

Μεγαλοστράτα

VII BC

• Poralla 512; Athenaeus XIII 600f
• A poetess and lover of Alcman

Μέγιλλος

V\IV BC

• Poralla 513; Xenophon Hellenica III 4.6
• Was sent to Tissaphernes by Agesilaos II in 396 to conclude a treaty.

Μέγιλλος

"EARLY IV BC"

• Poralla 514; Plato Laws passim; Cicero de legibus 1.5,15
• A principle speaker in Plato's dialogue

Μέγιππος

I BC

• IG V 1. 96
• Son of Nikostra[tos] (8)
• [Gerousias or member of the cult of Taenarum]

Μεγιστόδαμος

ROMAN PERIOD

• SEG XI 131a (addenda et corrigenda)
• Father of —odamos (Fragment 77), a La[ceda]emonian

Μεγιστόνους

DIED ca. 224 BC

• Plutarch Cleomenes [6.2]^a, 7.1-2^b, 11.1^c, 19.5^d, 21.1-3^e; Aratus 38.1^f, 41.5^g
• Stepfather and supporter of Kleomenes III^abc
• Commander of troops under the king, defeated and captured by Aratus^f
• Envoy between Aratus and Kleomenes^dg
• Commander of an abortive attempt to retake Argos during which he was killed^e

Μεγυλλίας

MID IV BC

• Poralla 515; FDelph III 5. 4 II 16
• Brought gifts in the middle of the fourth century for the building of a new temple in Delphi

Μέδων

VII BC

• Poralla 516; Pausanias V 17.2^a, VI 19.14^b
• A Lacedaemonian sculptor of the most ancient time, perhaps of the seventh century.
• Brother of Dorykleidas^a. Perhaps he is to be associated with the school of Dontas.^b

Μελαγκρίδας

END V BC

• Poralla 517; Thucydides VIII 6
• Nauarch of the year 413/12

Μέλανθος

END V BC

• Poralla 518; Thucydides VIII 5
• Was a commander of a detachment of neodamodes in Decelea under king Agis II in 412

Μελάνιππος

I BC\I AD

• IG V 1. 48
• Father of Damocharis (1)

Μέλας

END V BC

• SEG XI 890 (Thornace); Revue des études grecques 1950 p. 474 #113
• Dedication to Pythian Apollo on a bronze discus

Μελέας

MID V BC

• Poralla 519; Thucydides III 5
• Occupied on Lesbos in 428

[M]εληιππίδας

• IG V 1. 966
• Son of Taras (3)
• Lacedae[monian]
• Honored by Cotyrta for benefaction; he and his descendants to be proxenos and benefactor and to have the rights of domicile, due process, and the rest

[M]εληίων

III BC

• IG V 1. 1340
• Slave manumitted by [Th]euphanes
• Laconia

[M]ελησίης?

IV BC

• Poralla 520; IG V 1. 1342
• Inscription from a stone perhaps of the fourth century. Kolbe guesses that this might have been transported from an Ionian area to Cape Taenarum

Μελησιππίδας

BEGINNING V BC

• Poralla 521; Plutarch Agesilaus 1; Pausanias III 9.3 cf. Ἀριστομενίδας
• Father of Eupolia, the second wife of king Archidamos II

Μελήσιππος

MID V BC

• Poralla 522; Thucydides I 139, II 12
• Son of Diakritos
• A Spartiate who accompanied the third diplomatic mission to bring the last offer to Athens in 431 before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. In the same year he accompanied Archidamos on the first invasion of Attica.

Μελήσιππος (1)

REIGN OF TRAJAN

• SEG XI 569 (ὁ ἀπὸ Λυκούργου τὸ F´ γεροντεύων)
• Son of Eukletos (4)
• "The descendant of Lycurgus"
• Gerousias for the sixth time and presbys in the year of L.
• V[o]lusenus Aristokrates (10), AD 100/1

Μελήσιππος (2)

MID I AD

• IG V 1. 20b
• Father of Eukletos (1)

Μέλισσος

END II AD

• Steinhauer, BSA 93, pp. 427-447, #7a, plate 74b
• Gerousias (?) in the year of Anonymus

Πό(πλιος) Μέ(μμιος) Μελίχρους

I\II AD

• Rizakis 569; IG V 1. 148; SEG XI 537
• Son of Epaphroditos (11)
• [Nom]ophylax in the year of C. Ju(lius) Charix[enos] (7), AD 90/1-92/3
• Μεμμία Ἀγήτα (2)
• [Μ]εμμία Δαμοκρατία (4)
• (Μεμμία) Δαμοσθενεία (2)
• Μεμμία Εὐρυβανάσσα (2)
• Μεμ(μία) Λονγείνα (2)
• Μεμμία Ξενοκρατία
• Με(μμία) Πασιχ[αρεί]α
• Με(μμία) Τιμοσθένις (2)

Πό(πλιος) Μέμμ(ιος) — (1)

I\II AD

• Rizakis 549; SEG XI 535
• Nomophylax

Πό(πλιος) Μέ(μμιος) — (2)

• Rizakis 548; IG V 1. 197 (cf. SEG XI 596)
• [Grammateus boulas?]

[Πόπλι]ος Μέμ[μιος] — (3)

• IG V 1. 621
• Subject of an honorary decree

Μέ(μμιος) — (4)

• Rizakis 566; SEG XI 555 (= IG V 1. 75a, 78, + 81)
• [= Longinus (1)?, q. v.]
• Eponymous patronomos

Πό(πλιος) Mέμμιο[ς ——]

I/II AD

• Rizakis 550; Spawforth, BSA 89 (1994), p 434-5, #4 (Plate 74a)
• Name in a list of magistrates

Μέμ[μιος]

• Rizakis 545; Steinhauer, BSA 93 (1998), p 446-7, #15 (Plate 78b)
• Name in a list of [ephors?]

Π(όπλιος) M(έμμιος) ——

• Rizakis 547; Steinhauer, BSA 93 (1998), p 446-7, #15 (Plate 78b)
• Name in a list of [ephors?]
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμμιος Ἄνθος
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμμιος Ἀπολλώνιος (7)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμ(μιος) Γενναῖος
• Πό(πλιος) Μέ(μμιος) Γο[ρ]γιππίδας (1) Φιλάδελφος
• Πόπ(λιος) Μέμ(μιος) Δαμάρη[ς] (4)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμμιος Δαμάρης (5)
• (Πόπλιος Μέμμιος Δεξίμαχος (4)
• Πόπλι(ος) Μέμ(μιος) Δεξίμαχος (5)
• Π[όπλιος] Μέμμ[ιος Δε]ξίμαχ[ος] (10)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμμιος Δεξίμαχος " (11)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμμιος Δεξίμαχος " (14)
• (Πόπλιος Μέμμιος Δεξίμαχος " (15)
• Μέμμιος [Αὐρή]λιος Εὔτυχος (4)
• Μέμμιος Εὔτυχος (11)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμμιος Θεοκλῆς (2)
• Π(όπλιος) Μέμμιος Λάκων (4)
• Πό(πλιος) M(έμμιος) Λονγεῖνος (1)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέ(μμιος) Λυσίνεικ[ος] (1) Φιλάδελφος
• (Πόπλιος Μέμμιος) Λυσίνεικος (4)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέ(μμιος) Μελίχρους
• (Πόπλιος) Μέμμιος Μνάσων (1)
• Μέμ(μιος) Παρμέν{ω}[ν]
• Π[ό(πλιος)] Μέμμιος Πῖος (2)
• Πόπ(λιος) Μέμ(μιος) Πρατόλαος (4) ὁ καὶ Ἀριστοκλῆς
• Πό(πλιος) Μέ(μμιος) Πρατόλας (7)
• Π(όπλιος) Μέμμιος Πρατόλας (8) Δέξστρος
• (Πόπλιος) Μέμμιος Πρατόλαος (9)
• (Πόπλιος Μέμμιος) [Πρα]τόλας (12)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμμιος Σειδέκτας (2)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμμ(ιος) Σπαρτιατικός (2)
• Πό(πλιος) Μέμμιος Σπαρτιατικός (6)
• Μέμμιος Σω— (2)
• Πό(πλιος) [Μέ(μμιος) Σω?]σικράτης (11)
• Μέ(μμιος) Σωτήριχος (5)

Μεν—

I BC

• IG V 1. 95
• Father of Xenophanes (2)

Μεναλκίδας (1)

MID II BC

• Polybius XXX 16.2^a; XXXVIII 18.6; Pausanias VII 11.7^b, 12.8^c, 13.8^d
• Lacedaemonian^a
• In the service of Ptolemy against Antiochus Epiphanes, taken prisoner, and freed by Rome, 168 BC^a
• Strategos of the Achaean League, 151/150^b
• Ambassador from Sparta to Rome^c
• He committed suicide when his plan to remove Sparta from the Achaean League failed.^d

Μεναλκίδας (2)

I BC

• IG V 1. 95
• Son of Bra[sidas] (5)
• Gerousias in the year of Menalkid[as] (3)

Μεναλκίδ[ας] (3)

I BC

• IG V 1. 95, [266]
• Eponymous patronomos after Anse[tos] (1)

Μεναλκίδας

REIGN OF AUGUSTUS

• Steinhauer, BSA 93, pp. 427-447, #1, plate 71a
• Son of Timokles
• Gerousias in the year of Pratonikos Polykratous

Μενα{λ}κίδας (4)

II\I BC

• IG V 1. 92
• Father of Timokles (3)

Μένανδρος

V-IV BC

• Poralla 523; IG V 1. 937
• Harmost of the island of Cythera

Μένανδρος (1)

I\II AD

• SEG XI 558
• Son of Graphikos
• [Gerousias]

Μένανδρος (2)

I AD

• Rizakis IG V 1. 20b ^a, 676^b; A. M. Woodward BSA XXVI (1925), 168, C6, C7^c
• Son of (Menandros <4>)^ac
• Of the Limnaean obe^b
• Sphaireus in the year of Agathokles (9) Kleophantou^b, AD 70-80
• [Gerousias]^ac {in the year of Menekles, AD 96/7}

Μένανδρος (3)

I BC

• IG V 1. 212
• Member of the cult of Poseidon of Taenarum in the year of Aristomachos (3)

Μένανδρος (4)

I AD

• IG V 1. 20b, [676]; A. M. Woodward BSA XXVI (1925), 168, C6, C7
• Father of Menandros (2) of the Limnaean obe

Μενάρης

VI BC

• Poralla 524; Herodotus VIII 131
• Collateral member of the royal house of the Eurypontids. Son of
• Agesilaos and father of the king Leotychidas II

Μένασκος

V\IV BC

• Poralla 525; Xenophon Hellenica IV 2.8
• A Lacedaemonian in the army of Agesilaos II in 394

Μενεδάιος

MID V BC

• Poralla 526; Thucydides III 100, 109-111
• A Spartiate, accompanied Eurylochos in the campaign in Acarnania in winter 426/5 and took over the command of the troops after Eurylochos fell by Olpai

Τί(τος) Τρεβελληνὸς Μενεκλῆς (1)

REIGN OF TRAJAN

• Rizakis 700; SEG XI 511 ^a, 608^b
• Son of Areus (4)^ab
• Bidyos^b; ephor in the year of Gorgippidas (3)^a

Μενεκλῆς (2)

REIGN OF TRAJAN

• IG V 1. 193 (cf. SEG XI 637)^a; SEG XI 515^b
• Son of Kleodamos (7)^ab
• [Gerousias?]^a; ephor in the year of Nikokrates (12)^b, AD 86/7 or earlier

[Με]νεκλῆ[ς] (3)

I AD

• IG V 1. 674
• [Diabetes]

Γ(άιος) Ἰούλιος Μενεκλῆς (4)

LATE I AD

• Rizakis 479; IG V 1. 667
• Agonothetes of the Greater Uranian Augustan Nervian games in the year
• of Menekles (5), AD 96/7

Μενεκλῆς (5)

LATE I AD

• IG V 1. 277^a, 667^b; SEG XI 511^c, 559^d; [20b; A. M. Woodward, BSA
• XXVI (1925), 168, C6, C7]^e
• Quintus and Primus kasen to him^acd
• Eponymous patronomos during the reign of Nerva^b, AD 96/7
• “B” establishes his date, “E” lists the major office-holders of the time of the “Nervidean” games (with the name of the patronomos missing), the other known patronomi of this exact period are eliminated either through their dating by career inscriptions or through different lists of office-holders known in their year.

[Τ]ι(βέριος) Κλαύ(διος) Μενεκλίδας

II AD

• Rizakis 305; SEG XI 782
• Son of Eudamos (35)
• Subject of a decree of the city

Μενεκράτης (1)

• Plutarch Moralia (an seni respublica gerenda sit) 797c
• An old man of great prestige who had a chair placed in the government house and there consulted with the ephors

Μενεκράτης (2)

I BC

• IG V 1. 212
• Father of Nikasippos (3)

Μενέλαος

EARLY

• Poralla 527; Excerpta Barbari Latini 218, 42b in Eusebius (Schoene) I
• (Cod. Cemenelaos. Scal.: καὶ Μενέλαος)
• An invented king put between Agesilaos I and Archelaos

Μενέμαχος (1)

REIGN OF TRAJAN

• IG V 1. 105 (+ 106, cf. SEG XI 582)^a; SEG XI 543^b
• Son of (Menemachos <2>)^b
• Nomophylax in the year of M. Ulpius Sosikrat[es] (10)^b, AD 111/2 or
• 112/3
• [G]erousias for the fifth time in the year of [Damokles <3>]^a, AD 132/3

(Μενέμαχος [2])

I AD

• SEG XI 543
• Father of Menemachos (1)

Μενέμαχος (3)

I\II AD

• SEG XI 547 (= IG V 1. 61 + 157 + 187), 585
• Father of Neikippidas (2)

Μενεστικλῆς

V BC

• Poralla 528; IG V 1. 981
• Dedicated a marble column to Apollo in the fifth century

Μενέστρατος

• IG V 1. 650
• Staphylodromas

Μενεχαρίδας

BEGINNING IV BC

• Poralla 529; IG V 1. 1232
• Witness in a dedicatory inscription from Taenarum in the time of the
• ephor Eudamidas, so in the beginning of the fourth century

Μένιος

VI BC

• Poralla 530; Herodotus VI 71
• Son of Diaktoridas and brother of Eurydame, the second wife of
• Leotychidas II

Μένιππος (1)

• IG V 1. 672
• Son of Euda(i)monidas (3)
• Subject of a decree of the city
• Victor

Μένι[ππ]ος (2)

ROMAN PERIOD

• SEG XI 503
• Son of Pas[i]krates (10)
• Patronomos with C. Julius — (9)

Μένιππος (3)

ROMAN PERIOD

• IG V 1. 661
• Son of Poly[k]les (6)
• Great grandfather of [Et]earchos (1)
• Honored by him for having won the Aktia

Γά(ιος) Ἰούλιος Μένιππος (4)

REIGN OF TRAJAN

• Rizakis 480; SEG XI 608
• Bidyos

—ος Μένιππ[ος] (5)

II AD?

• IG V 1. 169 (cf. SEG XI 632: [Γά(ιος) Ἰούλι]ος = <4>?, or
• —ος Μενίππ[ου]?)
• Official in the 324th {year of the era = AD 178?}

Γά(ιος) Ἰούλιος Μενίσκος (1)

I\II AD

• Rizakis 481; IG V 1. 32B^a, [59]^b; SEG XI 494^c, 496^d, 521b , 575^f
• Son of (Meniskos <3>)^af
• Bideos in the year of Lysippos (4)^a, AD 113/4 or 114/5
• Chreophyl[ax] in the year of P. Memmius Pius (2)^a, AD 115/6
• Tamia[s] in the year of J[u]lius Eurykles (2)^a, AD 116/7
• Gerousias in the year of Seipompos (2)^af, AD 125/6 or 126/7
• Epi ton dikon in the year of Seiteimos (4)^a, AD 128/9
• Ephor in the year of Ti. Claudius Aristoboulos (1)^a, AD 129/30
• Eponymous patronomos^bcde, AD 135/6

Μενίσκος (2)

I\II AD

• SEG XI 528
• Father of Eudamos (11)

(Μενίσκος [3])

I AD

• IG V 1. 32B; SEG XI 575
• Father of C. Julius Meniskos (1)

Μενίσκ[ος] (4)

I\II AD

• SEG XI 530
• Father of Polybios (2)

Μεν[οί]τι[ος]

SECOND HALF V BC

• Poralla 531; IG V 1. 928
• Name on an inscription found in Cynuria at the latest from the second half
• of the fifth century

Μένων

IV\III BC

• Poralla 532; FDelph III 5. 9 II B5-6; [49 II 45]; [92 A 19]
• A Lacedaemonian naopoios at Delphi who towards the end of the
• fourth century brought money to Delphi
• Μέσσιος Σ— (9)

Μεταγένης

MID-END V BC

• Poralla 533; Thucydides V 19, 24
• One of the Spartiates who swore to the peace of Nikias and the alliance with Athens in 422/21. He was, as the order of the names implies, an ephor in this year.

Μέτριος?

EARLY VI BC

• SEG XXIX 390 (Μέτριος ἐγό); A, M, Woodward, BSA 30 (1928-30) 251, no 2; T. A. Boring, Literacy in Ancient Sparta: Mn Suppl. 44 (1979) 10-11; 106, no 76 (ph): μέτριος is an adjective, ἐγό is followed by Ἀλκ— or Ἀν—, possibly a name (i.e., Μέστριος?)
• Word on a small fragment of a cup
• Proper name? Adverb?

Μηνᾶς

MID-END V BC

• Poralla 534; Thucydides V 19, 21-24
• With other Spartiates signed the peace and alliance with Athens in 421. In the time between these two agreements he travelled to Thrace to inform Klearidas of the peace terms.
• Μήνιος, Αὐρ(ήλιος) Κλέανδρος (3) ὁ καὶ

[Σ]έκστο[ς Πομπήιος] Μηνοφά[νη]ς

III AD

• Rizakis 629 (Stemmata I, X); IG V 1. 303^a, 325^b, 464^c
• Son of Sex. Pom(peius) Theoxenos^c
• Brother of Sex. Pom(peius) Theoxenos and Pom(peia) Polla^c
• Father of Pom(peius) [Ar]istoteles (3)^a
• [Boago]s mik[ichiddomen]on^b

Μηνόφιλο[ς]

• IG V 1. 916
• Name on a tile: ἐποίει

Μητρόδωρος

II AD AFTER 136

• IG V 1. 37A^a, 64^b, 110^c
• Son of Apollonios (14)^ab[c]
• Lochagos^a; [gerousias]^c; [ephor in the year of Eudamidas (12)]^b, AD 148/9

Αἴλιος Μητροφάνης

AFTER MID II AD

• Rizakis 15; IG V 1. 563
• Puech. Orateurs et sophistes, 350-52, no. 174 [early III AD]
• Subject of an honorary decree of the city of the Lacedaemonians as the most worthy in philosophical character and training, surpassing his contemporaries in eloquence
• Lacedaemonian?
• Cf. Πόπλιος Αἴλιος [….]o—
• Rizakis 3; SEG XI 838
• A victor in a contest in Sparta in mid II AD. (It seems to be too much of a coincidence that in one inscription the victor of a competition is mentioned—P. Aelius [..c.4..]o—and in another Aelius Metrophanes is honored for surpassing his contemporaries with his eloquence.)

[Μη]τροφιανὸς β´ ὁ καὶ [Σωσ]ίνεικος

II AD

• SEG XI 832
• Β´ = (Son of [Me]trophianos)?
• [Lac]edaemonian
• Subject of honors
• Also a citizen of Selgus, Tyr[e], and Nicopo[l]is
• Μιλάως, see Κληνίκα

Μειλιχίων

• SEG XV 215
• Dedication (at Ano Doliana)

Μίλων

V\IV BC

• Poralla 535; Hellenica Oxyrhynchia 6.3, 8.1-2; Aeschines 2.78
• (Χείλων—nauarch)
• Harmost of Aigina at the beginning of 395

Μίνδαρος

END V BC

• Poralla 536; Thucydides VIII 85, 99-105; Xenophon Hellenica I 1.2-7, 11-18; Diodorus XIII 45-46; Polyaenus I 40.9; Plutarch Alcibiades 27; Justin V 4.1 (Mindarus et Pharnabazus, Lacedaemoniorum duces!)
• Nauarch of the year 411/10, commanded in the Hellespont where he was defeated twice in 411 at Cynossema and Abydos. In the first half of the year 410 he was decisively beaten for the third time at Cyzicus and died in this battle.

Μισγολαίδας

END V BC

• Poralla 537; Xenophon Hellenica II 3.10
• Eponymous ephor of the year 411/10

Μνασ—

I-III AD

• IG V 1. 319
• Son of Kallikr—?
• Bouago[s mi]kichizo[menon in the year of] Julius — (10)
• Dedication to Artem[is Orthia]

Μνασέας (1)

END I AD

• IG V 1. 20b; A. M. Woodward, BSA XXVI (1925), 168, C6, C7
• Son of (Mnaseas <2>)
• [Gerousias in the year of Menekles, AD 96/7]

(Μνασέας [2])

MID I AD

• IG V 1. 20b; A. M. Woodward, BSA XXVI (1925), 168, C6, C7
• Father of Mnaseas (1)

Μνασικράτης

MID I BC

• IG V 1. 211
• Father of Mnason (4) and Theon (1)

Μνασίνικος

REIGN OF AUGUSTUS

• Steinhauer, BSA 93, pp. 427-447, #1, plate 71a
• Father of Mnasistratos

Μνάσιππος

V\IV BC

• Poralla 538; Xenophon Hellenica VI 2.4-9, 15-26; Diodorus XV 47
• As nauarch of the year 373/72 he was sent to Corcyra; he shut the city in, but in spring 372 during an assault by the Corcyraeans he lost his life

Μνασίστρατος (1)

I BC?

• IG V 1. 270; SEG XI 881
• Eponymous patronomos

Μνασίστρατος (2)

I AD

• SEG XI 569
• Father of [St]yrax

Μνασίστρατος

REIGN OF AUGUSTUS

• Steinhauer, BSA 93, pp. 427-447, #1, plate 71a
• Son of Mnasinikos
• Gerousias in the year of Pratonikos Polykratous

(Πόπλιος) Μέμμιος Μνάσων (1)

END II AD

• Rizakis 570 (Stemma VII); IG V 1. 537
• Son of P. Mem(mius) Deximachos (5)
• Grandson of Pratolaos (8)
• Brother of (P.) Memmius Pratolaos (9)
• ("Forty-third generation from the Dioscuri")
• Raised a stele in honor of his father

Μνάσων (2)

• IG V 1. 322
• Son of Eu— (6)
• Bouagos mikkichidom[enon]
• Victor of the kas[seratoris]

Μνάσων (3)

MID II AD

• IG V 1. 44 (cf. SEG XI 486)^a, 87^b, 90 (cf. SEG XI 552)^c, 111 (cf.
• SEG XI 584)^d, 446^e; SEG XI 585^f
• Son of Lysippos (12)^[a]b[cd]ef
• Nomophylax in the year of —on (Fragment 127)^be, ca. AD 147
• Gerousias in the year of Biadas^f, AD 153/4
• [Gerousias] in the year of [C]la[udius] Sejanus^d, AD 154/5
• [Ephor]^c
• Eponymous patronomos^[a], AD 160/1

Μνάσων (4)

MID I BC

• IG V 1. 211
• Son of Mnasikrates
• Brother of Theon (1)
• Member of the cult of Poseidon of Taenarum in the year of Aristokratidas (1)

Μνάσων (5)

REIGN OF HADRIAN

• SEG XI 534
• Son of (Mnason <10>)
• Nomophylax in the year of Kleodamos (3), AD 88/9 or earlier

Μνάσων (6)

LATE I AD

• IG V 1. 667^a; SEG XI 534^b, 570^c
• Son of Pasikles (17)^abc
• Nomophylax in the year of Kleodamos (3)^b, AD 88/9 or earlier
• [Gerousias]^c, ca. AD 90
• Agonothetes of the Greater Uranian Augustan Nervian games in the year of Menekles (5)^a, AD 96/7

Μνάσων (7)

II AD

• IG V 1. 68^a, 69^b, 70^c, 98^d, 675^e; SEG XI 488^f, 533^g, 842c, addenda
• et corrigenda (proposed date of his patronomia: AD 106/7)
• Philokles (5)^bc and Philonidas (4)^ag kasen to him
• Eponymous patronomos^def, AD 91/2-94/5 or earlier

Μνάσων (8)

I\II AD

• IG V 1. 99
• Father of Lysimachos (1)

Μνάσων (9)

I AD

• IG V 1. [36A], 36B, 65; SEG XI 544
• Father of Lysippos (3)

(Μνάσων [10]) (= 11?)

I AD

• SEG XI 534
• Father of Mnason (5)

Μνάσων (11) (= 10?)

I AD

• SEG XI 569
• Father of Pasikles (8)

Μο—

• IG V 1. 178
• Name in a catalogue

Μόλοβρος

MID V BC

• Poralla 539; Thucydides IV 8; IG V 1. 1
• Father of the Spartiate Epitadas who commanded at Sphacteria in 425

Μόλπις

II\I BC

• Athenaeus IV 140A-141E, 156D; XIV 664E; FGrH III 590
• Lacedaemonian author of a constitution of Sparta

Μόνιμος

MID-END IV BC

• Poralla 540; Arrian Anabasis III 24.4; Curtius Rufus III 13.15
• A Spartiate who was ambassador to the Persian king Darius around 330
• and after Darius’s death was taken prisoner by Alexander the Great

Τιβ(έριος) Κλ(αύδιος) Μόντανος ὁ καὶ Ἡσύχιος

II AD

• Rizakis 306 (“Severan”); IG V 1. 504
• Son of Eupator
• Lacedaemonian and Trapezuntian citizen and councillor (bouleutes)
• Subject of a decree by Sparta for his education and moderation
• Μουνατία Σαβείνα

Μοῦσα

III AD

• Rizakis 593a; IG V 1. 773
• Gravemarker with a relief of a clothed woman

Μουσαῖος (1)

I BC

• IG V 1. 141
• Son of Agathokles (36)
• [Hi]erothytes in the year of Aristokratid[as] (1)

[Μου]σαῖος (2)

• IG V 1. 177 (cf. SEG XI 634)
• Son of Agion (3)
• Name in a catalogue

Μουσαῖος (3)

MID II AD

• SEG XI 503
• Patronomos with C. Jul(ius) Antipatros (1) (the eponym?)

{M}ου{σ}αῖ[ος] (4)

• IG V 1. 180 (9—)
• Name in a catalogue

Μουσαῖος (5)

II AD

• IG V 1. 20b, 36B; SEG XI 517, 540, 611; A. M. Woodward, BSA
• XXVI (1925) 168, C6, C7
• Father of Aristoneikidas (3)

Μύγδων

V\IV BC

• Poralla 541; Xenophon Hellenica III 4.20
• One of the thirty Spartiates who joined Agesilaos in Asia Minor in spring 395

Μυῖα

• Poralla 542; Suidas s. v., Eudokia 691
• A Spartan poetess of hymns
• (The name “Fly” would appear to be a pseudonym.)

Μύρων (1)

ROMAN PERIOD

• IG V 1. 753
• Gravemarker: twenty-nine years old at death

Μύρων (2)

II AD

• IG V 1. 168
• Father of [C.] Ju(lius) Secundus (2)

Μύσων?

VI BC

• Poralla 543; Diogenes Laertius I 106; Plutarch (quaestiones Romanae 84) 284cd; Plato Protagoras 343a; Stephanus Byzantius s. v. Χήν
• Son of Strymon
• One of the seven wise men of Greece, as a contemporary of Chilon belonging to the sixth century. According to some sources he came from Chen in Oita, according to others from Chen in Laconia.
• Μωλόσιος see Καλλικράτης (8)
• (The word have been interpreted variously as μῶλα, having to do with
• battle or λοχις (λόξος), or μῶ(α), Doric for μοῦσα.)