Xenophon's Hellenica

Tisiphonus

Family: Thessalians · Role: eldest of the brothers who killed Alexander · First appears: Book 6, section 4, part 3/3

Life events

  • Alexander was killed in a plot carried out by his wife's brothers, including Tisiphonus.(Book 6, section 4, part 3/3)
    • With: Alexander
    • “The perpetrators of the deed were his wife's brothers.”
  • Tisiphonus succeeded in holding the government after Alexander's death.(Book 6, section 4, part 3/3)
    • “Tisiphonus, in virtue of his seniority accepted, and up to the date of this history succeeded in holding, the government.”

Book 6, section 4, part 3/3

  • with Alexander (Tisiphonus succeeded Alexander in holding the government.) “Of the brothers who executed it, the eldest, Tisiphonus, in virtue of his seniority accepted, and up to the date of this history succeeded in holding, the government.”

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