Peisistratus (Orchomenus)
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Peisistratus or Peisitratos or Pisistratus (Ancient Greek: Πεισίστρατος)[1] was king of Arcadian Orchomenus in the time of the Peloponnesian War, who became the object of the hatred of the oligarchical party, and was murdered in an assembly of the senate. To avoid detection his body was cut to pieces, and the parts of it carried away by the senators under their robes. Tlesimachus, the son of Peisistratus, who was privy to the conspiracy, quieted the populace, who were incensed at the disappearance of their king, by a story of his having appeared to him in a superhuman form after he had left the earth. (Plut. Parall. vol. ii. p. 313, b.)
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- ^ The misspellings Psistratus, Peistratus, and Pesistratus are sometimes found. The traditional English pronunciation is /paɪ'sɪ.stɹə.təs/.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).
