Athenian — Minor Figures

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

Thais

courtesan · first appears Alexander

• Alexander · with Alexander “Thais, an Athenian, mistress of Ptolemy, who was afterwards king of Egypt”
• Alexander · with Ptolemy “Thais, an Athenian, mistress of Ptolemy, who was afterwards king of Egypt”

Aristion

tyrant · first appears Sylla

• Sylla · enemies with Sylla “Sylla had a vehement and an implacable desire to conquer Athens, whether out of emulation, fighting as it were against the shadow of the once famous city, or out of anger, at the foul words and scurrilous jests with which the tyrant Aristion, showing himself daily, with unseemly gesticulations, upon the walls, had provoked him and Metella.”
• Sylla · enemies with Archelaus “Aristion the tyrant, who was at enmity with Archelaus”

Lachares

usurper · first appears Demetrius

• Demetrius · enemies with Demetrius Poliorcetes “receiving information that Lachares, taking the opportunity of their civil dissensions, had set up himself as an usurper over the Athenians”
• Antony · parent: Eurycles “I am,' said he, 'Eurycles, the son of Lachares”

Agnonides

sycophant · first appears Phocion

• Phocion · enemies with Phocion “The orator Agnonides, however, at once fell foul upon Phocion, and impeached him of treason”

Leosthenes

general · first appears Timoleon

• Timoleon · rivals with Phocion “And thus Phocion, of Athens, having always vigorously opposed the measures of Leosthenes”
• Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero · with Demosthenes “as Chares, Diopithes, and Leosthenes of Demosthenes's, Pompey and young Caesar of Cicero's”

Apsephion

archon · first appears Cimon

• Cimon · with Cimon “when Cimon, and his brother commanders with him, came into the theater”

Eleus

son of Cimon · first appears Pericles

• Pericles · parent: Cimon “by their very names they were not to be looked upon as native and true Athenians, but foreigners and strangers, one being called Lacedaemonius, another Thessalus, and the third Eleus”
• Cimon · parent: Isodice “Diodorus, the geographer, asserts that both these, and another son of Cimon's, whose name was Thessalus, were born of Isodice”

Timagoras

Athenian envoy · first appears Artaxerxes

• Artaxerxes · patron: Artaxerxes “he bestowed upon him ten thousand darics”
• Artaxerxes · servant: Beluris “some secret intelligence which Timagoras the Athenian sent in to him by the hand of his secretary, Beluris”

Iophon

son of Pisistratus · first appears Marcus Cato

• Marcus Cato · child: Pisistratus “by whom he had, it is said, Iophon and Thessalus”
• Marcus Cato · parent: Timonassa “by whom he had, it is said, Iophon and Thessalus”

Archias the Hierophant

hierophant · first appears Pelopidas

• Pelopidas · friends with Archias “a messenger came with a letter from one Archias, the Hierophant at Athens, to his namesake Archias, who was his friend and guest.”

Demeas

son of Demades · first appears Phocion

• Phocion · parent: Demades “Marrying his son Demeas”

Philippides

stage-player · first appears Demetrius

• Demetrius · patron: Lysimachus “Philippides was a great favorite with king Lysimachus, from whom the Athenians received, for his sake, a variety of kindnesses”
• Demetrius · enemies with Stratocles “Accordingly, Philippides, an enemy to Stratocles, attacked him in a comedy”

Theramenes

politician · first appears Lysander

• Lysander · parent: Hagnon “This scroll of conditions the Athenians accepted, Theramenes, son of Hagnon, supporting it.”

Aristophanes

poet · first appears Cimon

• Cimon · with Periclidas “of whom Aristophanes says in mockery that he came and”

Stratocles

orator · first appears Demetrius

• Demetrius · with Phylacion “His mistress, Phylacion, one day bringing him a dish of brains and neckbones for his dinner”
• Demetrius · enemies with Philippides “Accordingly, Philippides, an enemy to Stratocles, attacked him in a comedy”

Beluris

secretary of Timagoras · first appears Artaxerxes

• Artaxerxes · employer: Timagoras “some secret intelligence which Timagoras the Athenian sent in to him by the hand of his secretary, Beluris”

Cleomedon

father of Cleaenetus · first appears Demetrius

• Demetrius · parent: Cleaenetus “Not so Cleaenetus, the son of Cleomedon”

Cleaenetus

son of Cleomedon · first appears Demetrius

• Demetrius · child: Cleomedon “Not so Cleaenetus, the son of Cleomedon”

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