Thucydides: 'Disease was the real cause of his death; though there is a story of his having ended his life by poison.' Plutarch, five centuries on, serves the legend at full strength — bull's blood drunk in ceremony. The house shows the sober contemporary and the grown story side by side.
death of Themistocles
kind: death · c. 459 BCE — the editor’s frame · 2 mentions across 2 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index
The end of the victor of Salamis, a Persian governor at Magnesia.
Anchored at c. 459 BCE on the editor’s table of years — the record supports 466–449 BCE.
· c. 459 BCE — date approximate ·
Conventionally c. 459 BCE at Magnesia; the served accounts date it only by his Persian pension. Bounds span the scholarly range.
Plutarch · one account
30–31 the principal narrative The last days at Magnesia and the theatrical death. Themistocles · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926
as the current story goes, drank bull’s blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in MagnesiaPlut. Themistocles 31
Thucydides · one account
1.135–1.138 a digression — told out of its place The flight to Persia and the sober verdict on his end, in Thucydides' great excursus. History of the Peloponnesian War · Richard Crawley, 1874
Disease was the real cause of his death; though there is a story of his having ended his life by poisonThuc. 1.138
Cimon — 1 episode shared Hellene — a candidate entry Pausanias — a candidate entry Themistocles — 1 episode shared Theopompus — a candidate entry
logoi — the words
No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.
mythoi — the stories
No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.
The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served