Greece — Minor Figures

8 figures from Plutarch's Lives who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Anaximenes

rhetorician · first appears Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero

• Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero · rivals with Cicero “as if he were engaged in a boyish trial of skill, who should speak best, with the rhetoricians, Isocrates and Anaximenes”

Isocrates

rhetorician · first appears Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero

• Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero · rivals with Cicero “as if he were engaged in a boyish trial of skill, who should speak best, with the rhetoricians, Isocrates and Anaximenes”

Conopion

burial attendant · first appears Phocion

• Phocion · with Phocion “A certain Conopion, a man who used to do these offices for hire, took the body and carried it beyond Eleusis”

Echecratides

sophist · first appears Phocion

• Phocion · patron: Phocion “he begged leave to intercede with him in behalf of Echecratides, the sophist”
• Phocion · with Phocion “he begged leave to intercede with him in behalf of Echecratides, the sophist”

Hecataeus

sophist · first appears Lycurgus

• Lycurgus · with Archidamidas “When one blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication, ”
• Eumenes · enemies with Eumenes “For there was an hereditary feud between them, arising out of political differences”

Pythonice

mistress of Harpalus · first appears Phocion

• Phocion · with Harpalus “the death of Pythonice, who was Harpalus's mistress, for whom he had a great fondness”

Pylades

musician · first appears Philopoemen

• Philopoemen · with Timotheus “the musician Pylades, with a voice well suited to the lofty style of the poet, was in the act of commencing the Persians of Timotheus,”

Polymedes

father of Glaucus · first appears Phocion

• Phocion · child: Glaucus “Glaucus, of Polymedes”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.