Alpistos

Family: Persian · Role: scout and heir · First appears: Aeschylus, The Persians — Scene 6

Life events

• Alpistos, Batanôchos, Sesames, Megabates, Parthos, and Oebares are lost with the defeated army.(Aeschylus, The Persians — Scene 6)
  • With: Xerxes Batanôchos Sesames Megabates Parthos Oebares
  • “And he, thy faithful Eye, Who told the Persian host, Myriads on myriads o'er, Alpistos, son and heir Of Batanôchos old · · · · · And the son of brave Sesames, Son himself of Megabates? Parthos, and the great Œbares, Did'st thou leave them, did'st thou leave them? Ah, woe! ah, woe is me, For those unhappy ones!”

Aeschylus, The Persians — Scene 6

• friends with Xerxes “And he, thy faithful Eye, Who told the Persian host, Myriads on myriads o'er, Alpistos, son and heir Of Batanôchos old”
• parent: Batanôchos “Alpistos, son and heir Of Batanôchos old”

Also listed in Persian — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.