Hermotimos

Family: Persian · Role: eunuch in the king's service · First appears: Book 8 · §99–105

Life events

Xerxes assigned Hermotimos charge of his sons.(Book 8 · §99–105)
- With: Xerxes
- “With these sons he sent Hermotimos to have charge of them”
Panionios bought Hermotimos after he had been captured and was being sold.(Book 8 · §99–105)
- With: Panionios
- “For he had been captured by enemies and was being sold, and Panionios a man of Chios bought him”
Panionios made Hermotimos a eunuch.(Book 8 · §99–105)
- With: Panionios
- “and also of this man about whom I speak”
Hermotimos came to be honoured above the other eunuchs by Xerxes.(Book 8 · §99–105)
- With: Xerxes
- “as time went on he came to be honoured more than all the other eunuchs in the sight of Xerxes”

with Panionios (Panionios bought Hermotimos and made him a eunuch.) “For he had been captured by enemies and was being sold, and Panionios a man of Chios bought him, one who had set himself to gain his livelihood by the most impious practices; for whenever he obtained boys who possessed some beauty, he would make eunuchs of them, and then taking them to Sardis or Ephesos sold them for large sums of money”
with Xerxes (Xerxes entrusts Hermotimos with charge of his sons.) “With these sons he sent Hermotimos to have charge of them, who was by race of Pedasa and was in the estimation of the king second to none of the eunuchs.”
with Panionios (The passage says Hermotimos obtained revenge for a wrong done to him; Panionios is identified in the surrounding passage as the man who bought and mutilated him.) “And this man of all persons whom we know up to this time obtained the greatest revenge for a wrong done to him.”

with Panionios (Hermotimos exacted vengeance on Panionios.) “Thus vengeance by the hands of Hermotimos overtook Panionios.”

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