Isagoras
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Isagoras son of Tisander · Isagoras son of Tisandrus
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Athenian politician and friend of the tyrants who contested power with Cleisthenes and called in Spartan aid.
When the tyranny had been overthrown, Isagoras son of Tisander, a friend of the tyrants, and Cleisthenes, of the family of the Alcmeonidae, were at strife with one another.
Isagoras, falling short in power, again called in Cleomenes, who was his guest-friend, and persuaded him to drive out the curse, since the Alcmeonidae were thought to be among the accursed.
But when the Council resisted and the multitude gathered, Cleomenes and Isagoras and all their party fled for refuge to the Acropolis, and the people, sitting before it for two days, besieged them, and on the third let Cleomenes and all with him go under truce, and sent for Cleisthenes and the other exiles.
Orations
Athenian associated with an attempt to establish tyranny, opposed by the Corinthians.
formerly from Hippias, later from Cleomenes, and after this, when the Athenians themselves attempted to do the work of Hippias and Isagoras and to establish a tyranny over Greece, were the first to perceive it and most grieved by it, and became leaders of freedom to the rest, and preserved this purpose not only in the case of the Athenians, but also in the case of the Lacedaemonians?
The Histories
Athenian aristocrat and rival of Cleisthenes who allies with Cleomenes, instigates the banishment of the Accursed, and is nearly installed as tyrant.
The Council, however, resisted him, whereupon Cleomenes and Isagoras and his partisans seized the acropolis.
Having so done he next attempted to dissolve the Council, entrusting the offices of government to Isagoras ' faction.
Isagoras, who was on the losing side, devised a counter-plot, and invited the aid of Cleomenes, who had been his friend since the besieging of the Pisistratidae.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Lacedaemonian commissioned to lead reinforcements toward Brasidas and later to inspect the state of affairs in the Thraceward cities.
Isagoras, however, Ameinias, and Aristeus, themselves came to Brasidas, being commissioned by the Lacedaemonians to inspect the state of affairs;
And, as Isagoras the Lacedaemonian then happened to be on the point of taking an army by land to join Brasidas, Perdiccas, partly because Nicias advised him, since he had come to terms with the Athenians, to give them some clear proof of his being a firm friend;