Talthybios

Family: Greek · Role: herald of Agamemnon · First appears: Book 7 · §129–136

Life events

• Heralds sent to Sparta were killed, bringing Talthybios’s wrath upon the Lacedemonians.(Book 7 · §129–136 · 📍 Sparta)
  • “the one people threw the men who made the demand into the pit and the others into a well”
• Talthybios’s wrath fell on the Lacedemonians, who could not obtain favourable omens in sacrifice.(Book 7 · §129–136 · 📍 Sparta)
  • “on the Lacedemonians however the wrath fell of Talthybios, the herald of Agamemnon; for in Sparta there is a temple of Talthybios, and there are also descendants of Talthybios called Talthybiads, to whom have been given as a right all the missions of heralds which go from Sparta; and after this event it was not possible for the Spartans when they sacrificed to obtain favourable omens.”

Book 7 · §129–136

• with Agamemnon (Talthybios is identified as Agamemnon's herald.) “on the Lacedemonians however the wrath fell of Talthybios, the herald of Agamemnon;”
• servant: Agamemnon (Talthybios is identified as Agamemnon’s herald.) “on the Lacedemonians however the wrath fell of Talthybios, the herald of Agamemnon;”

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