Pisus
Family: Pisa · Role: son of Perieres · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 17
In Book 5, Chapter 17, Pisus is identified as the son of Perieres and appears driving a pair of horses in rivalry with Asterion. By Book 6, Chapter 22, he is said to have founded Pisa as the son of Perieres and grandson of Æolus. At the games, the people of Pisa invited Phido to be their patron.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pisus founded Pisa as the son of Perieres and grandson of Æolus.(Book 6 · Chapter 22 · 📍 Pisa)
Book 5 · Chapter 17
- parent: Perieres “Pisus the son of Perieres”
- rivals with Asterion (son of Cometes) “And there are Pisus the son of Perieres and Asterion the son of Cometes driving a pair of horses”
Book 6 · Chapter 22
- parent: Perieres “The founder of the town was they say Pisus, the son of Perieres and grandson of Æolus.”
- with Æolus (grandparent-grandchild) “The founder of the town was they say Pisus, the son of Perieres and grandson of Æolus.”
- patron: Phido “they invited Phido the Argive, the most haughty of all the Greek tyrants, and made him the patron of the games.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.