Codrus
mythological figure · 7 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
قدروس
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Legendary king of Athens said to have sacrificed his own life to save his people, cited as an example of praiseworthy self-sacrifice.
It does not appear, that we could with justice condemn a Codrus, or a Curtius.
On Moral Ends
Legendary last king of Athens who sacrificed himself to save the city, cited as universally praised.
Who does not most highly praise Codrus, the saviour of his city, who the daughters of Erechtheus?
On the Nature of the Gods
Legendary last king of Athens, said to have died fighting for his country's liberty
And if we make him a god, what can we doubt either of Codrus or of the rest who fell fighting for the liberty of their country?
Tusculan Disputations
Legendary king of Athens who sacrificed himself in disguise to secure victory.
they commemorate Codrus, who flung himself into the midst of the enemy in a servant's garb, that he might not be recognized, had he been in royal array — because an oracle had been given that, if the king were slain, Athens would be victorious;
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The last of the ancient kings of Athens, named as the ancestor of Plato's father.
his father Ariston was of the lineage of Codrus, the last of the ancient kings of Athens, and his mother Perictione of the lineage of Solon the sage.
Symposium
Legendary king of Athens who sacrificed himself for his people
Do you suppose, she asked, that Alcestis would have died for Admetus, or Achilles have sought death on the corpse of Patroclus, or your own Codrus have welcomed it to save the children of his queen, if they had not expected to win a deathless memory for valor, which now we keep?
Law in a Free State
Legendary last king of Athens, used as an example of a memorized historical fact of doubtful value.
, or that Codrus was the last of the Athenian kings (if he was, for really one does forget even these things), or that a great many other dry and unimportant events occurred at certain dates;