Pisander
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 15 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian politician who leads the embassy and campaign to recall Alcibiades and install an oligarchy.
In the mean time, the Athenian ambassadors with Pisander arrived at the court of Tissaphernes, and conferred with him respecting the convention.
but when plainly informed by Pisander that there were no other means of preservation, being afraid, and at the same time having hopes of changing it again, they gave way.
Accordingly they resolved that Pisander and ten commissioners with him should sail and conclude, as they might think would be best, the negotiations both with Tissaphernes and Alcibiades.
Birds
An Athenian political figure, mocked by the chorus for consulting Socrates' underworld rite to retrieve the soul he supposedly lacks.
Pisander came one day to see his soul, which he had left there when still alive.
Constitution of the Athenians
One of the chief founders of the Four Hundred oligarchy
The oligarchy, then, was established in this way, in the archonship of Callias, about a hundred years after the expulsion of the tyrants, those chiefly responsible being Pisander, Antiphon, and Theramenes, men both of good birth and reputed to excel in understanding and judgement.