Tithraustes
Family: Persians · Role: Persian official · First appears: Book 3, section 4, part 2/3
At Sardis, after the king of Persia blamed Tissaphernes for the defeat, he sent Tithraustes and had Tissaphernes beheaded. In Hellas, Tithraustes sent Timocrates the Rhodian with gold worth fifty silver talents to secure pledges from leading men for war against Lacedaemon.
Relationship record
Life events
- The king of Persia blamed Tissaphernes for the defeat, sent Tithraustes, and had Tissaphernes beheaded.(Book 3, section 4, part 2/3 · 📍 Sardis)
- With: Tissaphernes
- “And the king of Persia, coming to a like conclusion himself that Tissaphernes was to blame for the evil turn of his affairs, sent down Tithraustes and beheaded him.”
- Tithraustes sent Timocrates the Rhodian with gold to secure pledges for war against Lacedaemon.(Book 3, section 5, part 1/2 · 📍 Hellas)
- With: Timocrates the Rhodian
- “he resolved to send Timocrates the Rhodian to Hellas with a gift of gold worthy fifty silver talents, and enjoined upon him to endeavour to exchange solemn pledges with the leading men in the several states, binding them to undertake a war against Lacedaemon.”
Book 3, section 4, part 2/3
- with Tissaphernes (interaction) “sent down Tithraustes and beheaded him”
Book 3, section 4, part 3/3
- with Agesilaus (Tithraustes provided Agesilaus with thirty talents.) “On this wise Tithraustes handed him thirty talents, which the other took, and forthwith began his march into Phrygia (the Phrygia of Pharnabazus).”
- with Agesilaus (Tithraustes provided Agesilaus with thirty talents for provisions.) “On this wise Tithraustes handed him thirty talents, which the other took, and forthwith began his march into Phrygia (the Phrygia of Pharnabazus).”
Book 3, section 5, part 1/2
- with Agesilaus (Tithraustes perceives Agesilaus's disposition and ambitions.) “But now Tithraustes seemed to have discovered in Agesilaus a disposition to despise the fortunes of the Persian monarch--he evidently had no intention to withdraw from Asia; on the contrary, he was cherishing hopes vast enough to include the capture of the king himself.”
- with Timocrates the Rhodian (Tithraustes commissions Timocrates as an envoy.) “Being at his wits' end how to manage matters, he resolved to send Timocrates the Rhodian to Hellas with a gift of gold worthy fifty silver talents, and enjoined upon him to endeavour to exchange solemn pledges with the leading men in the several states, binding them to undertake a war against Lacedaemon.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hellenica. Made with Rho MD.