# 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.

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