Xerxes

Family: Persia · Role: king of Persia · First appears: Themistocles

Themistocles

siblings with Sandauce “Sandauce, sister to Xerxes”
siblings with Ariamenes “Ariamenes, admiral to Xerxes, a brave man, and by far the best and worthiest of the king's brothers”
patron: Themistocles “the king invited him to partake of his own pastimes and recreations both at home and abroad”
cousins with Mithropaustes “Mithropaustes, cousin to the king”
with Themistocles (interaction) “I come with a mind suited to my present calamities; prepared alike for favors and for anger; to welcome your gracious reconciliation, and to deprecate your wrath.”
protégé: Themistocles “the king invited him to partake of his own pastimes and recreations both at home and abroad, carrying him with him a-hunting, and made him his intimate”

enemies with Aristides (Aristides is associated with the Greek victories over Xerxes.) “Nor indeed is Antiochus, nor the destruction of the walls of the Spanish towns, to be compared with Xerxes, and the destruction by sea and land of so many myriads of enemies; in all of which noble exploits Aristides yielded to none, though he left the glory and the laurels, like the wealth and money, to those who needed and thirsted more greedily after them: because he was superior to those also.”

parent: Artaxerxes I “The first Artaxerxes, among all the kings of Persia the most remarkable for a gentle and noble spirit, was surnamed the Long-handed, his right hand being longer than his left, and was the son of Xerxes.”

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