Alexas
Family: Cleopatra's household · Role: attendant · First appears: Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II
Alexas is an attendant in Cleopatra’s household and serves Cleopatra as an employer: “Where’s Alexas? ALEXAS. Here, at your service.” In Act I, Scene V, he is friends with Mark Antony and also his employee, praising the treasure Antony sends to Cleopatra while remarking on how unlike Antony the gift is. In Act II, Scene III, Cleopatra sends him to investigate Octavia’s appearance, age, disposition, and hair: “Go to the fellow, good Alexas, bid him Report the feature of Octavia, her years, Her inclination; let him not leave out The colour of her hair.”
By Act IV, Scene V, Alexas is an enemy of Octavius Caesar. At Alexandria, after going to Herod on Mark Antony’s affairs and trying to persuade him to abandon Antony for Caesar, Alexas is hanged by Octavius Caesar: “For this pains Caesar hath hanged him.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Cleopatra sends Alexas to investigate Octavia’s appearance, age, disposition, and hair.(Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene III)
- Caesar hangs Alexas after Alexas tries persuading Herod to abandon Antony.(Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene V · 📍 Alexandria)
- With: Herod Octavius Caesar Mark Antony
- “Alexas did revolt and went to Jewry on Affairs of Antony; there did dissuade Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar And leave his master Antony. For this pains Caesar hath hanged him.”
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II
- employer: Cleopatra “Where’s Alexas? ALEXAS. Here, at your service.”
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene III
- employer: Cleopatra “See where he is, who’s with him, what he does. I did not send you. If you find him sad, Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report That I am sudden sick. Quick, and return.”
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene V
- friends with Mark Antony “Good friend,” quoth he, “Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends This treasure of an oyster;”
- employer: Mark Antony “How much unlike art thou Mark Antony! Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath With his tinct gilded thee.”
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene III
- employer: Cleopatra “Go to the fellow, good Alexas, bid him Report the feature of Octavia, her years, Her inclination; let him not leave out The colour of her hair. Bring me word quickly.”
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene V
- enemies with Octavius Caesar “For this pains Caesar hath hanged him.”
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