Atrometus
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
my father · our father
in the texts
On the Embassy
Aeschines' father, described as an exile in the time of the Thirty who later helped restore democracy.
for Atrometus our father, whom you slander, though you do not know him and never saw what a man he was in his prime—you, Demosthenes, a descendant through your mother of the nomad Scythians—our father went into exile in the time of the Thirty, and later helped to restore the democracy;
Yonder is my father, Atrometus;
To plead with you in my behalf are present my father, whom I beg of you not to rob of the hopes of his old age;
On the False Embassy
Father of Aeschines, disparaged in the contrast with honored democratic families.
And then, when you have in your power a son of Atrometus the dominie, and of Glaucothea, the fuglewoman of those bacchanalian routs for which another priestess suffered death, will you release the son of such parents, a man who has never been of the slightest use to the commonwealth, neither he, nor his father, nor any member of his precious family?