Plut. Them.

Life of Themistocles

In the case of Themistocles, his family was too obscure to further his reputation. His father was Neocles,—no very conspicuous man at Athens,—a Phrearrhian by deme, of the tribe Leontis; and on his mother’s side he was an alien, as her epitaph testifies:—Abrotonon was I, and a woman of Thrace, yet I brought forthThat great light of the Greeks,—know! ‘twas Themistocles.” Phanias,…Read now

Author: Plutarch
Chapters: 1-32
Translator: Bernadotte Perrin

Life of Themistocles

Plutarch

translated by Bernadotte Perrin

Edition

Bernadotte PerrinDefaultPerrin translationThe translation of Bernadotte Perrin, as printed in Plutarch's Lives (Loeb Classical Library).In the case of Themistocles, his family was too obscure to further his reputation. His father was Neocles,—no very conspicuous man at Athens,—a Phrearrhian by deme, of the tribe Leontis; and on his mother’s side he was an alien, as her epitaph…

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