About: Polydoros

Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: Polydoros Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Polydoros was a young Yaunan (under the age of 30) from a banking family in the seaport town of Peiraieus. He was recommended to Mithredath by Hermippos, the ganzabara of the Yauna province since he knew both Aramaic and Greek. He knew how to read and write the latter since the inland towns still did business in the old language. When they first meet, Polydoros asked Mithredath if he intended to travel each day to the ruins of Athens or to camp there. On learning it was a two hour walk, Mithredath decided to camp since too much of the day would otherwise be taken up with travel.

Attributes	Values
rdfs:label	Polydoros
rdfs:comment	Polydoros was a young Yaunan (under the age of 30) from a banking family in the seaport town of Peiraieus. He was recommended to Mithredath by Hermippos, the ganzabara of the Yauna province since he knew both Aramaic and Greek. He knew how to read and write the latter since the inland towns still did business in the old language. When they first meet, Polydoros asked Mithredath if he intended to travel each day to the ruins of Athens or to camp there. On learning it was a two hour walk, Mithredath decided to camp since too much of the day would otherwise be taken up with travel.
dcterms:subject	Greeks 1st-Century BC Births (Fictional Work) Counting Potsherds Characters Persians Bankers
type of appearance	Direct
dbkwik:turtledove/...iPageUsesTemplate	dbkwik:resource/NtKMe_kKctEyDa0SsnCT7w== dbkwik:resource/FHBnKRVbQtyaJXiHTVhBrA==
Name	Polydoros
Occupation	Banker
Nationality	Yauna, citizen of Persia
abstract	Polydoros was a young Yaunan (under the age of 30) from a banking family in the seaport town of Peiraieus. He was recommended to Mithredath by Hermippos, the ganzabara of the Yauna province since he knew both Aramaic and Greek. He knew how to read and write the latter since the inland towns still did business in the old language. When they first meet, Polydoros asked Mithredath if he intended to travel each day to the ruins of Athens or to camp there. On learning it was a two hour walk, Mithredath decided to camp since too much of the day would otherwise be taken up with travel. They agreed to set out in two days time since Polydoros would be busy the next day with the monthly silver shipment from the Laurion mines. He speculated that if the big lode had been discovered before the Persian conquest, then perhaps the Greeks would have been able to afford to build sufficient ships to defeat them. Mithredath dismissed this as wishful thinking. Polydoros proved useful to Mithredath's mission, pointing out the Akropolis and later the marketplace. In both locations, he translated Greek inscriptions for Mithredath which helped the latter learn more about the conquest.

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software