Demophon
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Demophon, son of Theseus
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Stromata
Demophon, son of Theseus, whose first regnal year at Athens is synchronized with the fall of Troy.
And in the eighteenth year of the kingdom of Agamemnon Ilium was taken, in the first year of the reign at Athens of Demophon, son of Theseus, on the twelfth of the month Thargelion, as Dionysius the Argive says;
from Demophon, one thousand two hundred and fifty;
Against Aphobus II
One of the three guardians, betrothed to the speaker's sister with a dowry of two talents as part of the father's deathbed arrangement.
My sister he gave to Demophon with a dowry of two talents to be paid at once, and betrothed her to him in marriage;
At the same time he gave to Therippides the seventy minae, and betrothed my mother to the defendant with her portion of eighty minae, and placed me on his knees.
But Aphobus, though admitting that he was sent for by my father, and though he came to the house, declares that he did not come into the presence of my father, who had sent for him, nor enter into any agreement in regard to these matters, but merely heard Demophon read a document and Therippides say that my father made these arrangements;
Against Aphobus III
One of Demosthenes's three guardians, co-defendant in the original suit over the estate.
that Demophon should at once receive two talents, and should marry my sister when she should come of age (this would be in ten years);
I instituted suit, men of the jury, against Demophon, Therippides and the plaintiff for breach of trust in their guardianship, for I had been defrauded by them of all my inheritance.
it was because of the size of the estate left to me that he gave to Therippides the interest on seventy minae, and to Demophon that on the two talents—though he was not yet to marry my sister.
Heracleidae
King of Athens, son of Theseus, who receives the suppliant children of Heracles at the altar of Zeus, refuses to surrender them to Copreus despite the threat of war, and must reconcile an oracle demanding a noble maiden's sacrifice.
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