Philistus

Family: Syracuse · Role: historian · First appears: Nicias

Nicias

• rivals with Timaeus “and to make Philistus appear a trifler and a novice”

Dion

• patron: Dionysius “Dion's enemies, fearing an alteration in Dionysius, persuaded him to recall from banishment Philistus”
• protégé: Dionysius the First “Philistus from the beginning had been a great instrument in establishing the tyranny”
• with Leptines (interaction) “when Leptines, having two daughters by a married woman whom he had debauched, gave one of them in marriage to Philistus”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.