Syracusan — Minor Figures

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

Timocrates

Rhodian envoy · first appears Dion

• Dion · married with Arete “he then forced Arete, against her will, to marry Timocrates”
• Artaxerxes · employer: Artaxerxes “sent Timocrates the Rhodian into Greece, with large sums of gold, commanding him by a free distribution of it to corrupt the leading men in the cities”

Apollocrates

son of Dionysius · first appears Dion

• Dion · parent: Dionysius “the son of Dionysius, in despair of holding out longer for his father, capitulated”
• Dion · with Dion “Apollocrates, who was his wife's nephew and sister's grandson”

Demaenetus

popular spokesman · first appears Timoleon

• Timoleon · with Timoleon “And when Demaenetus, in a full audience of the people, laid several things to his charge which had been done while he was general”
• Timoleon · with Timoleon “when Demaenetus, in a full audience of the people, laid several things to his charge which had been done while he was general”

Laphystius

popular spokesman · first appears Timoleon

• Timoleon · with Timoleon “two of their popular spokesmen, Laphystius and Demaenetus by name, fell to slander Timoleon”
• Timoleon · with Timoleon “two of their popular spokesmen, Laphystius and Demaenetus by name, fell to slander Timoleon”

Nysaeus

ruler of Syracuse · first appears Timoleon

• Timoleon · enemies with Dionysius “by the help of some mercenary troops he had got together, forces out Nysaeus, then master of Syracuse”

Sophrosyne

first appears Dion

• Dion · married with Dionysius “Sophrosyne was married to his son Dionysius”
• Dion · parent: Dionysius the First “Dionysius had three children by Doris, and by Aristomache four, two of which were daughters, Sophrosyne and Arete.”

Archimedes

engineer and mathematician · first appears Marcellus

• Marcellus · friends with Hiero “Archimedes, however, in writing to king Hiero, whose friend and near relation he was, had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved”
• Marcellus · enemies with Marcus Claudius “all which, however, were, it would seem, but trifles for Archimedes and his machines.”

Marsyas

captain · first appears Dion

• Dion · employer: Dionysius the First “He slew Marsyas, one of his captains whom he had preferred to a considerable command”
• Dion · patron: Dionysius the First “He slew Marsyas, one of his captains whom he had preferred to a considerable command”

Thearides

first appears Dion

• Dion · married with Arete “Arete, to his brother Thearides, after whose death, Dion received his niece Arete to wife.”

Theodotes

first appears Dion

• Dion · younger kin: Heraclides “Heraclides sent his brother, and after him his uncle, Theodotes, to beg him to help them”

Theste

first appears Dion

• Dion · married with Polyxenus “when Polyxenus, the husband of his sister, Theste”

Polyxenus

first appears Dion

• Dion · married with Theste “when Polyxenus, the husband of his sister, Theste”

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