Demades
Family: Athens · Role: orator · First appears: Phocion
Demades was an Athenian orator. At Athens, Antipater was wont to say he had two friends, Phocion and Demades. He supported Demosthenes when Demosthenes was at a loss or discomposed, and later agreed, for five talents, to go as ambassador to Alexander and intercede for the persons Alexander had demanded. He was also accused by Dinarchus of letters in which he encouraged Perdiccas to attack Macedonia and save the Greeks.
Demades’s son was Demeas. When Cassander saw Demades come, he seized him, first killed Demeas before his face, and then, after taunting him with ingratitude and treachery, killed Demades himself.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cassander killed Demades after first killing his son, Demeas, and accusing him of treachery.(Phocion · 📍 Macedonia)
- With: Cassander Demeas
- “So when Cassander saw him come, he seized him; and first brought out the son and killed him so close before his face, that the blood ran all over his clothes and person, and then, after bitterly taunting and upbraiding him with his ingratitude and treachery, dispatched him himself.”
Phocion
- friends with Antipater “Antipater was wont to say, he had two friends at Athens, Phocion and Demades”
- child: Demeas “Marrying his son Demeas”
- with Antipater (interaction) “Antipater and the Macedonians”
- with Cassander (interaction) “So when Cassander saw him come, he seized him; and first brought out the son and killed him so close before his face”
Demosthenes
- with Demosthenes (Demades supported Demosthenes in speaking.) “when he was at a loss, and discomposed, Demades would often rise up on the sudden to support him”
- with Alexander (interaction) “Demades, having agreed with the persons whom Alexander had demanded, for five talents, undertook to go ambassador, and to intercede with the king for them;”
- enemies with Dinarchus “Of this he was accused by Dinarchus, the Corinthian, and Cassander was so enraged, that he first slew his son in his bosom, and then gave orders to execute him”
- enemies with Cassander “Cassander was so enraged, that he first slew his son in his bosom, and then gave orders to execute him”
- with Dinarchus (interaction) “Of this he was accused by Dinarchus, the Corinthian, and Cassander was so enraged, that he first slew his son in his bosom, and then gave orders to execute him;”
- with Perdiccas (interaction) “For some of his letters were intercepted, in which he had encouraged Perdiccas to fall upon Macedonia, and to save the Grecians,”
- with Demosthenes (interaction) “when he was at a loss, and discomposed, Demades would often rise up on the sudden to support him”
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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.