Sikinnos

Family: Thespian · Role: servant and tutor · First appears: Book 8 · §72–80

Life events

Themistocles secretly sent Sikinnos to tell the Persian commanders that the Hellenes planned to flee.(Book 8 · §72–80)
- With: Themistocles
- “Then Themistocles, when his opinion was like to be defeated by the Peloponnesians, secretly went forth from the assembly, and having gone out he sent a man to the encampment of the Medes in a boat, charging him with that which he must say: this man's name was Sikinnos”
Themistocles made Sikinnos a Thespian citizen and a wealthy man.(Book 8 · §72–80)
- With: Themistocles
- “after these events Themistocles entered him as a Thespian citizen, when the Thespians were admitting new citizens, and made him a wealthy man.”

employer: Themistocles “this man's name was Sikinnos, and he was a servant of Themistocles and tutor to his children”

employer: Themistocles (Sikinnos is identified as Themistocles' servant.) “So when these had been persuaded by him, forthwith after this Themistocles sent men with a vessel, whom he trusted to keep silence, to whatever test they might be brought, of that which he himself charged them to tell the king; and of them Sikinnos his servant again was one.”

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