Philistides
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Crown
Figure associated with control of Oreus and with envoys treated as friends by Aeschines.
For the ambassadors who came here from Cleitarchus and Philistides lodged at your house and you entertained them.
Now that Philistides would have paid a large sum for possession of Oreus, and Cleitarchus for possession of Eretria, and Philip himself to get those advantages of position against you, or to escape conviction in other matters or any inquiry into his wrongdoing in every quarter, is well known to all—and to no one better than to you, Aeschines.
Third Philippic
A pro-Philip leader at Oreus associated with tyranny and factional capture.
but a year before the capture of Eretria, detecting the machinations of Philistides and his party, he denounced him as a traitor.
Does he not send mercenaries, some to Porthmus to expel the Eretrian democracy, others to Oreus to set up the tyranny of Philistides?
But at Oreus Philistides, Menippus, Socrates, Thoas, and Agapaeus, the very men who now control the city, were, as everyone knew, Philip’s agents, but Euphraeus, a man who once resided here at Athens, was working for the freedom and emancipation of his countrymen.