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After a winter siege, Artayctes and his son attempted to escape, but they were captured. Artayctes offered 200 talents to Xanthippus to spare his life - a huge sum. But Xanthippus refused. Artayctes' son was stoned to death in front of his father, and then Artayctes himself was crucified.
He offered 100 talents to the gods and 200 to the Athenians if they would spare their lives. However, the Greek general Xanthippus was obliged to hand over Arta ctes to the people of Elaeus, a town which Arta ctes had plundered while governor of Sestos. Arta ctes was then crucified by the people.
After a winter siege, Artayctes and his son attempted to escape, but they were captured. Artayctes offered 200 talents to Xanthippus to spare his life - a huge sum. But Xanthippus refused. Artayctes' son was stoned to death in front of his father, and then Artayctes himself was crucified.
Deceit and sacrilege. 30. — Artayctes, a Persian, once was in command of Sestos. He had deceived Xerxes when starting for Athens, having secretly carried off the treasures of Protesilaus from Elaeus. Now he had deceived Xerxes (by) using these words: — ‘O king, a certain Greek used to live here.
Artayctes offered the Athenians 200 talents to spare his life and that of his son. Xanthippus refused and executed them both at or near the site where Xerxes had constructed the bridges for his troops to cross the Hellespont into Greece.
Apr 10, 2024 · In the annals of ancient history, few tales rival the saga of Xanthippus, the mercenary Spartan general who forever altered the course of the First Punic War. Employed by Carthage to repel the advancing Roman legions, Xanthippus' strategic brilliance and military prowess transformed what seemed like impending defeat into a resounding victory.
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Dec 15, 2003 · Artayctes’ execution. While the Thracian Aspinthians were offering human sacrifices to their god Pleistorus (9.119), the Greeks had Artayctes and his son suffer a particularly cruel death. On Xanthippus’s behest he was impaled at the place where Xerxes’ bridge had once been (9.120). (On the manner of execution, cf. Rollinger, 1998, pp. 347 f. with n. 31.) It is true that this harsh ...
