Pisistratus
Family: Athenian · Role: tyrant · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3
Pisistratus was the father of Hippias, Hipparchus, and Thessalus. He died at an advanced age while holding the tyranny; Hippias, his eldest son, succeeded him as tyrant, “and not Hipparchus, as is vulgarly believed.”
Relationship record
Life events
- After Pisistratus died, his eldest son Hippias succeeded him as tyrant.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4)
- With: Hippias
- “Pisistratus dying at an advanced age in possession of the tyranny, was succeeded by his eldest son, Hippias, and not Hipparchus, as is vulgarly believed.”
Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3
- child: Hippias “The general Athenian public fancy that Hipparchus was tyrant when he fell by the hands of Harmodius and Aristogiton, not knowing that Hippias, the eldest of the sons of Pisistratus, was really supreme, and that Hipparchus and Thessalus were his brothers;”
- child: Hipparchus “The general Athenian public fancy that Hipparchus was tyrant when he fell by the hands of Harmodius and Aristogiton, not knowing that Hippias, the eldest of the sons of Pisistratus, was really supreme, and that Hipparchus and Thessalus were his brothers;”
- child: Thessalus “The general Athenian public fancy that Hipparchus was tyrant when he fell by the hands of Harmodius and Aristogiton, not knowing that Hippias, the eldest of the sons of Pisistratus, was really supreme, and that Hipparchus and Thessalus were his brothers;”
Book 6 · Chapter 19 · Part 4
- child: Hippias “Pisistratus dying at an advanced age in possession of the tyranny, was succeeded by his eldest son, Hippias, and not Hipparchus, as is vulgarly believed.”
- child: Hipparchus “Solicited without success by Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus, Harmodius told Aristogiton, and the enraged lover,”
- child: Thessalus “the pillar placed in the Athenian Acropolis, commemorating the crime of the tyrants, which mentions no child of Thessalus or of Hipparchus, but five of Hippias”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.