Herald
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Herald the group
herald · the Herald
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
The civic herald who would announce public honors or the old recognition of war orphans in the theater.
For when the herald has led forward the man who is responsible for making the children orphans, what will he proclaim?
I ask you to imagine for a little time that you are not in the court-room, but in the theater, and to imagine that you see the herald coming forward to make the proclamation under the decree;
For what Greek, nurtured in freedom, would not mourn as he sat in the theater and recalled this, if nothing more, that once on this day, when as now the tragedies were about to be performed, in a time when the city had better customs and followed better leaders, the herald would come forward and place before you the orphans whose fathers had died in battle, young men clad in the panoply of war;
On the Mysteries
Official who calls for the person responsible in the bough inquiry.
Thereupon the herald called for the person responsible.
Suppose that I laid the bough there, and then failed to answer the Herald.
Birds
A herald who arrives from the human world bearing a golden crown for Pisthetaerus and reporting the sudden craze among Athenians for all things avian.
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Cyropaedia
Public announcer who proclaims Cyrus’s camp regulations and liberation order.
And again Cyrus ordered proclamation to be made that if there were any one from Media or Persia or Bactria or Caria or Greece or anywhere else forced into service as a slave in the army of the Assyrians or Syrians or Arabians, he should show himself.
Further, he added, let the herald proclaim that no one shall interfere with the market in the camp, but that the hucksters may sell what each of them has for sale and, when they have disposed of that, get in a new stock, that our camp may be supplied.