Pisistratus

Role: father of Hipparchus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 23

Life events

• Pisistratus or his companions inadvertently changed a name while collecting Homer’s scattered verses.(Book 7 · Chapter 26)
  • With: Homer
  • “But when Pisistratus collected the verses of Homer, that had been scattered about and had to be got together from various quarters, either he or some of his companions in the task changed the name inadvertently.”

Book 1 · Chapter 23

• child: Hippias “Pisistratus and his son Hippias”

Book 1 · Chapter 29

• child: Hipparchus “Hipparchus the son of Pisistratus”

Book 4 · Chapter 1

• with Menelaus (Pisistratus visited Menelaus.) “as he has shewn in the visit of Pisistratus to Menelaus”

Book 7 · Chapter 26

• with Homer (Pisistratus collected and organized verses attributed to Homer.) “But when Pisistratus collected the verses of Homer, that had been scattered about and had to be got together from various quarters, either he or some of his companions in the task changed the name inadvertently.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.