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.
But Themison was very angry at being thus tricked on his oath and renounced his friendship with Etearchus;
There was at Oaxus a Theraean trader, one Themison;
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.