Bias

Family: Prienean · 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 Pittacos
  • “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 (Bias advised Croesus against building ships.) “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”

Book 9 · §31–36

• siblings with Melampus “said that he would not do that which they desired unless they gave to his brother Bias also the third share in the royal power.”

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