Pythios

Family: Lydian · Role: son of Atys · First appears: Book 7 · §20–28

Life events

Pythios offered Xerxes money to support the war.(Book 7 · §20–28 · 📍 Kelainai)
- With: Xerxes
- “moreover he professed himself ready to supply money for the war.”
Xerxes made Pythios his guest-friend and gave him seven thousand staters.(Book 7 · §29–38)
- With: Xerxes
- “To thee therefore in return I give these rewards,--I make thee my guest-friend, and I will complete for thee the four hundred myriads of staters by giving from myself the seven thousand”
Xerxes ordered Pythios’s eldest son cut in two as punishment for his request.(Book 7 · §38–48)
- With: Xerxes
- “for thy gifts of hospitality shall rescue from death thyself and the four others of thy sons, but thou shalt pay the penalty with the life of the one to whom thou dost cling most.”
Pythios’s eldest son was cut in two, and the army passed between his remains.(Book 7 · §38–48)
- With: Xerxes
- “When these had so done, the army proceeded to pass between”

parent: Atys “Pythios the son of Atys, a Lydian, was waiting for the king and entertained his whole army, as well as Xerxes himself, with the most magnificent hospitality;”
with Xerxes (Pythios hosted Xerxes.) “Pythios the son of Atys, a Lydian, was waiting for the king and entertained his whole army, as well as Xerxes himself, with the most magnificent hospitality;”
with Xerxes (Pythios entertained Xerxes.) “Pythios the son of Atys, a Lydian, was waiting for the king and entertained his whole army, as well as Xerxes himself, with the most magnificent hospitality:”

with Xerxes (Xerxes makes Pythios his guest-friend.) “To thee therefore in return I give these rewards,--I make thee my guest-friend, and I will complete for thee the four hundred myriads of staters by giving from myself the seven thousand, in order that thy four hundred myriads may not fall short by seven thousand, but thou mayest have a full sum in thy reckoning, completed thus by me.”
with Xerxes (Xerxes makes Pythios his guest-friend and gives him money.) “To thee therefore in return I give these rewards,--I make thee my guest-friend, and I will complete for thee the four hundred myriads of staters by giving from myself the seven thousand, in order that thy four hundred myriads may not fall short by seven thousand, but thou mayest have a full sum in thy reckoning, completed thus by me.”

employer: Xerxes (Xerxes is Pythios’s master.) “seeing that thou art my slave, who ought to have been accompanying me thyself with thy whole household and thy wife as well?”
with Xerxes (Pythios had provided gifts of hospitality to Xerxes.) “for thy gifts of hospitality shall rescue from death thyself and the four others of thy sons”

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