Pausanias' Description of Greece

Phido

Family: Argos · Role: tyrant · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 22

Life events

  • The people of Pisa appointed Phido patron of the Olympian games.(Book 6 · Chapter 22 · 📍 Pisa)
    • “in the 8th Olympiad they invited Phido the Argive, the most haughty of all the Greek tyrants, and made him the patron of the games.”

Book 6 · Chapter 22

  • protégé: Pisus “they invited Phido the Argive, the most haughty of all the Greek tyrants, and made him the patron of the games.”

Also listed in Argos — Minor Figures

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