in damon and pythias, damon offered to take pythias's place in prison as a hostage.
in damon and pythias, damon offered to take pythias's place in prison as a hostage.
in damon and pythias why does damon offer to take pythias's place in prison?
as a hostage
accepting his sentence, pythias asked to be allowed to return home one last time to settle his affairs and bid his family farewell. not wanting to be taken for a fool, the king refused, believing that, once released, pythias would flee and never return. damon offered himself as a hostage in pythias' absence, and when the king insisted that, should pythias not return by an appointed time, damon would be executed in his stead, damon agreed and pythias was released.
damon and pythias
pythias begs dionysus to allow him to visit his wife in athens promising to return to syracuse to be executed. pythias' friend damon volunteers to be held hostage until pythias returns. dionysius sees this as the opportunity to demonstrate the falsity of pythagoras' philosophy. 









































dionysius allows pythias to leave but doesn't expect him to return. dionysius prepares to execute damon, but at the last minute, pythias returns to take damon's place before the executioner. the tyrant's son intervenes and damon and pythias are both spared.









































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bullet::::- guy williams as damon









































bullet::::- don burnett as pythias
damon and pythias (film)