Tisias

Family: Athenian · Role: general · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 17 · Part 1

The next summer, Tisias served as an Athenian general alongside Cleomedes on an expedition against Melos. Before doing any harm to the land, the generals sent envoys to negotiate with the Melians. The account identifies Tisias as the son of Tisimachus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Athenian forces mounted an expedition against Melos under Cleomedes and Tisias.(Book 5 · Chapter 17 · Part 1 · 📍 Melos)
  • With: Cleomedes
  • “The Athenians also made an expedition against the isle of Melos with thirty ships of their own, six Chian, and two Lesbian vessels, sixteen hundred heavy infantry, three hundred archers, and twenty mounted archers from Athens, and about fifteen hundred heavy infantry from the allies and the islanders.”
• Cleomedes and Tisias sent envoys to negotiate with the Melians.(Book 5 · Chapter 17 · Part 1)
  • With: Cleomedes
  • “Cleomedes, son of Lycomedes, and Tisias, son of Tisimachus, the generals, encamping in their territory with the above armament, before doing any harm to their land, sent envoys to negotiate.”

Book 5 · Chapter 17 · Part 1

• parent: Tisimachus “Cleomedes, son of Lycomedes, and Tisias, son of Tisimachus, the generals, encamping in their territory with the above armament, before doing any harm to their land, sent envoys to negotiate.”
• with Cleomedes (Both are identified as generals in the same expedition.) “Cleomedes, son of Lycomedes, and Tisias, son of Tisimachus, the generals, encamping in their territory with the above armament, before doing any harm to their land, sent envoys to negotiate.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.