# Thersites — Discourses character guide

> Thersites in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Thersites 533

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

Ugly Greek soldier in the Iliad, used as an example of foolishness.

## In the story

### [On the Power of Speaking](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/xxiii-on-the-power-of-speaking)

Used in a hypothetical about perceiving no difference between beauty and ugliness.

### [On Familiar Intimacy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/ii-on-familiar-intimacy)

Used as an example of a base character that one cannot combine with a noble one like Agamemnon.

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