Ischenoös

Family: Greek · Role: father of Pytheas · First appears: Book 7 · §177–186

Life events

• Pytheas was badly wounded fighting aboard Asonides’s captured ship, but the Persians saved his life.(Book 7 · §177–186)
  • With: Asonides Pytheas
  • “the Persians who served as fighting-men on board the ships, because of his valour used all diligence to save his life”
• The other captives taken aboard Asonides’s ship were treated as slaves.(Book 7 · §177–186)
  • With: Asonides Pytheas
  • “but the rest whom they had taken in this ship they treated as slaves”

Book 7 · §177–186

• child: Pytheas “seeing that Pytheas the son of Ischenoös served as a fighting-man on board of her”

Book 8 · §90–98

• child: Pytheas “This last had charged against a ship of Sidon, the same that had taken the Eginetan vessel which was keeping watch in advance at Skiathos, and in which sailed Pytheas the son of Ischenoös, whom the Persians kept in their ship, all cut to pieces as he was, making a marvel of his valour.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.