Tisamenos

Family: Spartan · Role: diviner · First appears: Book 4 · §143–150

Life events

Tisamenos offered sacrifice for the Hellenes, and the omens favoured defending themselves but not crossing the Asopos to fight.(Book 9 · §31–36 · 📍 Plataian land)
- With: Antiochos
- “For the Hellenes Tisamenos the son of Antiochos was he who offered sacrifice, for he it was who accompanied this army as diviner.”
Tisamenos demanded Spartan citizenship for himself and his brother Hegias as the price of serving as a war leader.(Book 9 · §31–36)
- “he raised his price and signified to them that he would do as they desired, if they would make him a citizen of their State and give him full rights, but for no other payment.”
The Spartans agreed to make Tisamenos and his brother Hegias citizens on the same terms.(Book 9 · §31–36)
- With: Hegias
- “but at last, when great terror was hanging over them of this Persian armament, they gave way and consented.”
Tisamenos became a Spartan and served as their diviner in the first of five great contests.(Book 9 · §31–36 · 📍 Plataia)
- “then Tisamenos the Eleian, having become a Spartan, had part with them in winning five of the greatest contests as their diviner: and these were the only men who ever were made fellow-citizens of the Spartans.”

parent: Thersander “Theras the son of Autesion, the son of Tisamenos, the son of Thersander, the son of Polyneikes”

parent: Antiochos “Tisamenos the son of Antiochos was he who offered sacrifice, for he it was who accompanied this army as diviner.”
siblings with Hegias “but it was necessary that his brother Hegias also should be made a Spartan citizen on the same terms as he himself became one.”
rivals with Hieronymos of Andros “and he practised for the ”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.