Pausanias' Description of Greece

Tisis

Family: Messenian · Role: envoy to Delphi · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 9

Life events

  • Tisis delivers the oracle at Ithome, then dies from wounds sustained in the ambush.(Book 4 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Ithome)
    • “And Tisis, directly he got safe to Ithome, and had delivered his oracle to the king, fell down dead of his wounds.”

Book 4 · Chapter 9

  • parent: Alcis (parent->child) “They selected for this mission Tisis the son of Alcis, who in general merit and in divination was considered inferior to nobody.”

Also listed in Messenian — Minor Figures

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