{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg010.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg010.local001","title":"Θεμιστοκλῆς","titleGreek":"Θεμιστοκλῆς","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Bernadotte Perrin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Plutarch's Lives","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1914","volume":"2","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives02plut2/page/n15/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Θεμιστοκλῆς. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg010.local001","excerpt":"Θεμιστοκλεῖ δὲ τὰ μὲν ἐκ γένους ἀμαυρότερα πρὸς δόξαν ὑπῆρχε· πατρὸς γὰρ ἦν Νεοκλέους οὐ τῶν ἄγαν ἐπιφανῶν Ἀθήνησι, Φρεαρρίου τῶν δήμων ἐκ τῆς Λεοντίδος φυλῆς, νόθος δὲ πρὸς μητρός, ὡς λέγουσιν· Ἀβρότονον Θρήϊσσα γυνὴ γένος· ἀλλὰ τεκέσθαι τὸν μέγαν Ἕλλησίν φημι Θεμιστοκλέα. Athenaeus 13.576. Φανίας μέντοι τὴν μητέρα τοῦ Θεμιστοκλέους οὐ Θρᾷτταν, ἀλλὰ Καρίνην, οὐδʼ Ἀβρότονον ὄνομα, ἀλλʼ Εὐτέρπην ἀναγράφει. Νεάνθης δὲ καὶ πόλιν αὐτῇ τῆς Καρίας Ἀλικαρνασσὸν προστίθησι. διὸ καὶ τῶν νόθων εἰς Κυνόσαργες συντελούντων (τοῦτο δʼ ἐστὶν ἔξω πυλῶν γυμνάσιον Ἡρακλέους, ἐπεὶ κἀκεῖνος οὐκ ἦν γνήσιος ἐν θεοῖς, ἀλλʼ ἐνείχετο νοθείᾳ διὰ τὴν μητέρα θνητὴν οὖσαν) ἔπειθέ τινας ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆς τῶν εὖ γεγονότων νεανίσκων καταβαίνοντας εἰς τὸ Κυνόσαργες ἀλείφεσθαι μετʼ αὐτοῦ. καὶ τούτου γενομένου δοκεῖ πανούργως τὸν τῶν νόθων καὶ γνησίων διορισμὸν ἀνελεῖν. ὅτι μέντοι τοῦ Λυκομιδῶν γένους μετεῖχε δῆλός ἐστι· τὸ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-29"},{"label":"Chapter 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-30"},{"label":"Chapter 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-31"},{"label":"Chapter 32","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/#tlg0007-tlg010-local001-32"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg010.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg010/local001.json.gz"}}