Themison
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Themison of Etretria
spoken of as
1 expressionThemison of Etretria1 mention
Against Ctesiphon (Greek)
and again at the hands of Themison of Etretria, who in time of peace robbed us of Oropus;
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Eretrian figure accused of taking Oropus from Athens.
and again at the hands of Themison of Etretria, who in time of peace robbed us of Oropus;
On the Embassy
Figure associated with the Eretrians in Aeschines' examples of shifting alliances.
You fought against Themison and the Eretrians, and again you saved them.
The Histories
A Theraean trader at Oaxus who is tricked into an oath to kill Phronime but contrives to save her instead.
There was at Oaxus a Theraean trader, one Themison;
But Themison was very angry at being thus tricked on his oath and renounced his friendship with Etearchus;
Letters to Lucilius
Physician credited with founding his own medical school.
And so one school is that of Hippocrates, another of Asclepiades, another of Themison.