Xerxes
quoted 43 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Xerxes the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
32 quoted · 11 reported
41 neutral 1 refutedin the voice of Artabanus 8 , Demaratus 8 , Mardonius 4 , Masistes 2 , Pythius 2 , the Magi 2 , the vision 2 , Achaemenes 1 , Artayctes 1 , Artaynte 1
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in the voice of Artabanus
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The Histories Herodotus 40 neutral 1 refuted 42 citations · 106 passages
book 4 2 passages anchored here · book 7 87 passages anchored here · book 8 12 passages anchored here · book 9 5 passages anchored hereArtabanus delivers an extended direct speech opposing the invasion, forming the central counter-argument of the council scene.
Artabanus answered, “In one life we have deeper sorrows to bear than that.
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in the voice of Xerxes
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Panegyricus Isocrates 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage reports the content of an offer made by the Persian king to the Athenians, a speech act of persuasion/bribery that the ancestors are said to have scorned.
and when it lay in their power not only to escape from their present dangers but also to enjoy the signal honors which the King held out to them, since he conceived that if he could get the support of the Athenian fleet he could at once become master of the Peloponnesus also, then our ancestors scorned to accept his gifts;
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