Plutarch's Lives

Harpalus

Family: Macedonian · Role: governor · First appears: Alexander

Life events

  • Demosthenes was banished after conviction for bribery.(Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero)
    • With: Demosthenes
    • “Moreover, Demosthenes's banishment was infamous, upon conviction for bribery”

Alexander

  • employer: Alexander “he ordered Harpalus to send him some”
  • friends with Alexander “banished Harpalus, Nearchus, Erigyius, and Ptolemy, his son's friends and favorites”

Phocion

  • with Pythonice (interaction) “the death of Pythonice, who was Harpalus's mistress, for whom he had a great fondness”
  • friends with Charicles “he professed a particular friendship to Phocion's son-in-law, Charicles”
  • with Phocion (interaction) “Phocion answered sharply, Harpalus should repent of it, if he did not quickly leave off corrupting and debauching the city”

Demosthenes

  • with Demosthenes (interaction) “For Demosthenes could not resist the temptation, but admitting the present, like an armed garrison, into the citadel of his house, he surrendered himself up to the interest of Harpalus.”
  • with Demosthenes (interaction) “To you,”

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