Protesilaos

Family: Greek · Role: hero who dwells at Elaius · First appears: Book 9 · §111–119

Life events

• Artaÿctes took Protesilaos’ offerings after deceiving Xerxes into granting him the sacred enclosure.(Book 9 · §111–119 · 📍 Elaius)
  • With: Artaÿctes Xerxes
  • “So when the things had been given him, he brought them from Elaius to Sestos, and he sowed the sacred enclosure for crops and occupied it as his own”
• Artaÿctes was hanged, and his son was stoned to death before him.(Book 9 · §120–122)
  • With: Artaÿctes
  • “there they nailed him to boards and hung him up; and they stoned his son to death before the eyes of Artaÿctes himself..”

Book 9 · §111–119

• with Iphiclos (Protesilaos is the son of Iphiclos.) “in taking away from Elaius the things belonging to Protesilaos the son of Iphiclos.”

Book 9 · §120–122

• enemies with Artaÿctes (Artaÿctes acknowledges that he wronged Protesilaos.) “Protesilaos who dwells at Elaius signifies thereby that though he is dead and his body is dried like those fish, yet he has power given him by the gods to exact vengeance from the man who does him wrong.”

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