Spartan — Minor Figures

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

Lacratidas

chief Ephor · first appears Lysander

Lysander · with Agesilaus “But Lacratidas, a wise man, and at that time chief of the Ephors, hindered Agesilaus”

Lysander's father · first appears Lysander

Lysander · child: Lysander “Lysander's father is said to have been Aristoclitus, who was not indeed of the royal family, but yet of the stock of the Heraclidae.”

ambassador · first appears Cimon

Cimon · with Cimon “who therefore dispatched Periclidas to Athens to solicit succors”
Cimon · with Aristophanes “of whom Aristophanes says in mockery that he came and”

ephor · first appears Cleomenes

Cleomenes · with Cleomenes “the other four were killed, and above ten more that came to their assistance; to those that were quiet they did no harm, stopped none that fled from the city, and spared Agylaeus”

Cleomenes's follower · first appears Cleomenes

Cleomenes · friends with Cleomenes “he issued forth, together with his friends, provided in the same manner, making thirteen in all.”
Cleomenes · with Cleomenes “Hippitas was lame, and followed the first onset very well”

soldier and Cleomenes's friend · first appears Cleomenes

Cleomenes's friend · first appears Cleomenes

Cleomenes · friends with Cleomenes “one of his friends, Therycion by name, a man of a noble spirit in all enterprises”

Cleomenes's friend and lover · first appears Cleomenes

Cleomenes · with Cleomenes “He had a friend whose name was Xenares, his lover”
Cleomenes · friends with Cleomenes “He had a friend whose name was Xenares, his lover”

ambush commander · first appears Cleomenes

king · first appears Cleomenes

Cleomenes · with Lycurgus “so that king Charillus fled in alarm to the altar”
Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with Agis and Cleomenes · elder kin: Lycurgus “Lycurgus, whose example he professed to imitate, after he had voluntarily settled his kingdom upon Charillus, his brother's son, fearing lest, if the youth should chance to die by accident, he might be suspected for it, traveled a long time, and would not return again to Sparta until Charillus had a son, and an heir to his kingdom.”

captain · first appears Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus

Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus · with Dionysius “The first of them was a follower of Dionysius, when he was expelled from Syracuse”

poet · first appears Cleomenes

Cleomenes · with Leonidas “The ancient Leonidas, as story tells, being asked what manner of poet he thought Tyrtaeus, replied, ”

Agiatis's father · first appears Cleomenes

Cleomenes · child: Agiatis “being heiress to her father Glylippus's great estate”

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