Tisias
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Tisias son of Tisimachus
in the texts
Phaedrus
A rhetorician credited with a scientific-sounding definition of probability and an illustrative legal case, both examined and found wanting by Socrates.
That is just what he says.
now let Tisias himself tell us if he does not say that probability is that which most people think.
Tisias, some time ago, before you came along, we were saying that this probability of yours was accepted by the people because of its likeness to truth;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian general, with Cleomedes, who commands the expedition against Melos.
The generals therefore, Cleomedes son of Lycomedes, and Tisias son of Tisimachus, having gone and encamped in their territory with this armament, before injuring any part of the land, first sent ambassadors to hold a conference with them.