Greek — Minor Figures

41 figures from Plutarch's Lives who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Cratippus

philosopher · first appears Pompey

• Pompey · pupil: Pompey “Cratippus modestly declined the dispute, putting him in better hopes only”
• Pompey · with Pompey “Then turning to Cratippus, the philosopher, who came among the rest out of the city to visit him”

Menecrates

physician · first appears Agesilaus

• Agesilaus · with Agesilaus “Jupiter Menecrates to King Agesilaus, greeting.”
• Antony · employer: Pompey “under the command of Menas, the pirate, and Menecrates”

Anaxarchus

philosopher · first appears Alexander

• Alexander · patron: Alexander “Nor did he fail by these means to insinuate himself into his favor”
• Alexander · with Alexander “Anaxarchus indeed allayed the king's grief, but withal corrupted his character”

Stasicrates

architect · first appears Alexander

• Alexander · patron: Alexander “his wishes turned, above all other artists, to Stasicrates”

Dionysius of Magnesia

rhetorician · first appears Cicero

• Cicero · with Cicero “he conversed with Xenocles of Adramyttium, Dionysius of Magnesia, and Menippus of Caria”

Menippus of Caria

rhetorician · first appears Cicero

• Cicero · with Cicero “he conversed with Xenocles of Adramyttium, Dionysius of Magnesia, and Menippus of Caria”

Philo

Academic philosopher · first appears Cicero

• Cicero · mentor: Cicero “he became an auditor of Philo the Academic”
• Cicero · pupil: Cicero “he became an auditor of Philo the Academic”

Posidonius

philosopher · first appears Caius Marius

• Caius Marius · with Caius Marius “Posidonius the philosopher relates, who says he visited and conversed with him when he was sick, about some business relating to his embassy.”
• Cicero · pupil: Cicero “and philosophy with Posidonius”

Xenocles of Adramyttium

rhetorician · first appears Cicero

• Cicero · with Cicero “he conversed with Xenocles of Adramyttium, Dionysius of Magnesia, and Menippus of Caria”

Aristus

friend and companion of Brutus · first appears Marcus Brutus

• Marcus Brutus · friends with Marcus Brutus “took his brother Aristus into his own house for his friend and companion”

Empylus

rhetorician · first appears Marcus Brutus

• Marcus Brutus · with Marcus Brutus “As for Empylus, of whom he himself and his friends often make mention in their epistles, as one that lived with Brutus”

Callippides

tragic actor · first appears Agesilaus

• Agesilaus · with Agesilaus “Are you not, said he, Callippides the showman?”