Pytheas

Family: Greek · Role: fighting-man · First appears: Book 7 · §177–186

Life events

• Pytheas was badly wounded fighting aboard Asonides’s captured ship, but the Persians saved his life.(Book 7 · §177–186)
  • With: Asonides Ischenoös
  • “the Persians who served as fighting-men on board the ships, because of his valour used all diligence to save his life”
• The other captives taken aboard Asonides’s ship were treated as slaves.(Book 7 · §177–186)
  • With: Asonides Ischenoös
  • “but the rest whom they had taken in this ship they treated as slaves”
• Polycritos captured the Sidonian ship, and Pytheas was brought safely to Egina.(Book 8 · §90–98 · 📍 Egina)
  • With: Polycritos (son of Crios)
  • “The Sidonian ship then was captured bearing with it this man as well as the Persians of whom I spoke, so that Pytheas thus came safe to Egina.”

Book 7 · §177–186

• parent: Ischenoös “seeing that Pytheas the son of Ischenoös served as a fighting-man on board of her”
• with Asonides (Asonides was master of the ship on which Pytheas served as a fighting-man.) “The ship of Egina however, of which Asonides was master, even gave them some trouble to capture it, seeing that Pytheas the son of Ischenoös served as a fighting-man on board of her”

Book 8 · §90–98

• parent: Ischenoös “This last had charged against a ship of Sidon, the same that had taken the Eginetan vessel which was keeping watch in advance at Skiathos, and in which sailed Pytheas the son of Ischenoös, whom the Persians kept in their ship, all cut to pieces as he was, making a marvel of his valour.”

Book 9 · §71–78

• with Lampon (Pytheas is Lampon's father.) “Lampon the son of Pytheas”
• child: Lampon “Lampon the son of Pytheas”

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