Boges

Family: Persian · Role: commander at Eïon · First appears: Book 7 · §107–118

Life events

Besieged by the Athenians, Boges refused a truce and killed his family before throwing himself into a fire.(Book 7 · §107–118 · 📍 Eïon)
- With: Kimon (son of Miltiades)
- “when he was besieged by the Athenians under Kimon the son of Miltiades, though he might have gone forth under a truce and so returned home to Asia, he preferred not to do this, for fear that the king should that it was by cowardice that he survived; and he continued to hold out till the last. Then when there was no longer any supply of provisions within the wall, he heaped together a great pyre, and he cut the throats of his children, his wife, his concubines and his servants, and threw them into the fire; and after this he scattered all the gold and silver in the city from the wall into the river Strymon, and having so done he threw himself into the fire.”
Xerxes commended Boges and highly honoured his surviving children.(Book 7 · §107–118 · 📍 Persia)
- With: Xerxes
- “Xerxes did not consider any to be a good man except only Boges, who was at Eïon: him he never ceased commending, and he honoured very highly his children who survived him in the land of Persia.”

enemies with Kimon (son of Miltiades) “when he was besieged by the Athenians under Kimon the son of Miltiades”
with Xerxes (Xerxes commended Boges; the children mentioned are unnamed.) “Xerxes did not consider any to be a good man except only Boges, who was at Eïon: him he never ceased commending, and he honoured very highly his children who survived him in the land of Persia.”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.