Pittacos

Family: Mytilenean · Role: wise man · First appears: Book 1 · §19–27

Life events

• Croesus stopped building ships after hearing advice attributed to Bias or Pittacos.(Book 1 · §19–27 · 📍 Sardis)
  • With: Croesus Bias
  • “Croesus, they say, was greatly pleased with this conclusion, and obeying his suggestion, for he judged him to speak suitably, he stopped his building of ships”

Book 1 · §19–27

• with Croesus (Pittacos is given as an alternative account of the visitor who advised Croesus.) “they say that Bias of Priene (or, according to another account, Pittacos of Mytilene) came to Sardis, and being asked by Croesus whether there was any new thing doing in Hellas, brought to an end his building of ships by this saying”

Also listed in Mytilenean — Minor Figures

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