Hegesistratos
Family: Athenian · Role: despot of Sigeion · First appears: Book 5 · §93–94
Life events
- Peisistratos took Sigeion by force and installed his son Hegesistratos as its despot.(Book 5 · §93–94 · 📍 Sigeion)
- With: Peisistratos
- “Peisistratos had taken by force of arms from the Mytilenians, and having got possession of it, had appointed his own natural son Hegesistratos, born of an Argive woman, to be despot of it”
- Hegesistratos struggled to retain the territory he had received from Peisistratos.(Book 5 · §93–94 · 📍 Sigeion)
- “he however did not without a struggle keep possession of that which he received from Peisistratos”
- The Mytilenians and Athenians fought over Sigeion, each maintaining strongholds and contesting its ownership.(Book 5 · §93–94 · 📍 Achilleion)
- The Spartans bound Hegesistratos and intended to put him to death.(Book 9 · §31–36)
- “whom before these events the Spartans had taken and bound, in order to put him to death, because they had suffered much mischief from him.”
- Hegesistratos cut off part of his foot, escaped confinement, and fled to Tegea.(Book 9 · §31–36)
- “he cut away the flat of his own foot, and after that, since he was guarded still by warders, he broke through the wall and so ran away to Tegea”
- Hegesistratos reached Tegea after escaping the Spartans.(Book 9 · §31–36 · 📍 Tegea)
- “so that, though the Lacedemonians searched for him in full force, he arrived at Tegea on the third night;”
- After recovering and obtaining a wooden foot, Hegesistratos became an open enemy of the Lacedemonians.(Book 9 · §31–36 · 📍 Tegea)
- “and when he was healed and had procured for himself a wooden foot, he became an open enemy of the Lacedemonians.”
- The Lacedemonians caught Hegesistratos while he practised divination in Zakynthos and put him to death.(Book 9 · §31–36 · 📍 Zakynthos)
- “for he was caught by them while practising divination in Zakynthos, and was put to death.”
- Hegesistratos was hired by Mardonios to sacrifice and support his cause.(Book 9 · §38–45 · 📍 the Asopos)
- With: Mardonios
- “he was now at the Asopos, having been hired by Mardonions for no mean sum, sacrificing and displaying zeal for his cause”
Book 5 · §93–94
- parent: Peisistratos “which city Peisistratos had taken by force of arms from the Mytilenians, and having got possession of it, had appointed his own natural son Hegesistratos, born of an Argive woman, to be despot of it”
- with Peisistratos (Peisistratos appointed Hegesistratos despot of Sigeion.) “which city Peisistratos had taken by force of arms from the Mytilenians, and having got possession of it, had appointed his own natural son Hegesistratos, born of an Argive woman, to be despot of it;”
Book 9 · §31–36
- with Mardonios (Hegesistratos served as Mardonios's diviner.) “for he too used the Hellenic manner of sacrifice, having as diviner Hegesistratos an Eleian and the most famous of the Telliadai, whom before these events the Spartans had taken and bound, in order to put him to death, because they had suffered much mischief from him.”
Book 9 · §38–45
- employer: Mardonios (The text spells the name “Mardonions” in this passage; elsewhere in the chapter it is Mardonios.) “he was now at the Asopos, having been hired by Mardonions for no mean sum, sacrificing and displaying zeal for his cause both on account of his enmity with the Lacedemonians and on account of the gain which he got”
Book 9 · §88–95
- parent: Aristagoras (father of Hegesistratos) “there came to them as envoys from Samos Lampon the son of Thrasycles and Athenagoras the son of Archestratides and Hegesistratos the son of Aristagoras”
- with Leotychides (Leotychides questioned Hegesistratos, a Samian envoy.) “Then as the stranger of Samos was urgent in his prayer, Leotychides inquired thus, either desiring to hear for the sake of the omen or perhaps by a chance which Providence brought about: ”
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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.