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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Theban, son of PHRYNON. Attaginus, along with TIMAGENIDES, was the most prominent of the leaders of the OLIGARCHY at THEBES and led the city’s medizing efforts in 481–479 BCE (9.86.1; cf. Thuc. 3.62.3–4). Before the Battle of PLATAEA, Attaginus hosted an elaborate feast at Thebes for fifty high‐ranking Persians, including the general MARDONIUS, and fifty members of the Theban elite; each dining couch paired a Persian and a Theban (9.15.4–16.1; cf. Ath. 4.148e). After their victory at Plataea, the Greeks besieged Thebes and demanded that Attaginus and Timagenides be handed over. When a settlement had been worked out but Attaginus succeeded in escaping, the Thebans delivered his sons in his place to PAUSANIAS, but the Spartan commander refused to hold them responsible for their father’s actions (9.88).

PLUTARCH writes that Attaginus was a guest‐friend of the exiled Spartan king DEMARATUS, who arranged the same relationship for Attaginus with XERXES (Mor. 864f). Attaginus’ subsequent fate is otherwise unknown. The Roman‐era author Pausanias includes him in a list of great traitors in Greek history (7.10.2).

SEE ALSO: Blame; Boeotians; Feasting; Guest‐friendship; Medize; Thersander of Orchomenus