Ion

Family: Greece · Role: writer · First appears: Comparison of Alcibiades with Coriolanus

Comparison of Alcibiades with Coriolanus

with Coriolanus (Ion is cited for a general observation applied in the discussion of Coriolanus.) “And Coriolanus also, Dionysius relates, used unfair means to excite war between the Romans and the Volscians, in the false report which he spread about the visitors at the Games; and the motive of this action seems to make it the worse of the two; since it was not done, like the other, out of ordinary political jealousy, strife, and competition. Simply to gratify anger, from which, as Ion says, no one ever yet got any return, he threw whole districts of Italy into confusion, and sacrificed to his passion against his country numerous innocent cities.”

with Perseus (interaction) “His children he himself had delivered into the hands of Ion, one that had been his favorite, but now proved his betrayer”
with Perseus (interaction) “His children he himself had delivered into the hands of Ion, one that had been his favorite, but now proved his betrayer”

with Cimon (interaction) “Ion relates that when he was a young man, and recently come from Chios to Athens, he chanced to sup with Cimon, at Laomedon's house.”

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