Pisander
Also known as: Pisander of Camirus · Family: Greek · Role: hero · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 3
In Book 3, Chapter 3, Homer was cited as bearing witness that the weapons of the heroes were brass, including the axe of Pisander and the arrow of Meriones. In Chapter 9, Agesilaus put his wife’s brother Pisander, described as a very stout soldier by land, in command of the triremes.
At Stymphelus in Book 8, Chapter 22, Pisander said that Hercules frightened the birds away with rattles rather than killing them.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pisander claimed Hercules frightened the birds away with rattles rather than killing them.(Book 8 · Chapter 22 · 📍 Stymphelus)
- With: Hercules
- “But Pisander of Camirus says that Hercules did not kill them but only frightened them away with the noise of rattles.”
Book 3 · Chapter 3
- with Homer (interaction) “That in the days of the heroes all arms alike were brass is borne witness to by Homer in the lines which refer to the axe of Pisander and the arrow of Meriones.”
Book 3 · Chapter 9
- with Agesilaus (Pisander was Agesilaus's brother-in-law and was appointed commander.) “And he put Pisander his wife’s brother, a very stout soldier by land, in command of the triremes.”
Book 8 · Chapter 22
- with Hercules (Pisander gives a conflicting account of Hercules's action.) “But Pisander of Camirus says that Hercules did not kill them but only frightened them away with the noise of rattles.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.