Tisiphonos from Pherai

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Tisiphonos ( Greek  Τισίφονος , also Teisiphonos ; † 355/4 BC), son of Jason of Pherai , was a tyrant of Pherai in Thessaly .

Tisiphonus was the eldest of the three sons of the tyrant Jason of Pherai, his brothers were Lycophron II and Peitholaos. In 358 BC The brothers supported their sister Thebe in the murder of her husband and cousin Alexandros , whereupon Tisiphonus, the eldest, took over the tyranny in Pherai. According to Konon , who wrote in the Augustan period , Tisiphonus was only a pro forma tyrant, while his older sister Thebe had actual power.

Supported by a mercenary army, he and his brothers continued the policy of their predecessors to establish tyranny over the whole of Thessaly by trying to regain the office of tagie that Alexandros had previously lost. This provoked the resistance of the old Thessalian nobility among the Aleuads from Larisa , who therefore sought an alliance with Philip II of Macedonia , who was founded in 357 BC. Intervened in Thessaly for the first time and put the rulers of Pherai in their place. But he soon withdrew to Macedonia , apparently after he had settled his relationship with them.

Tisiphonus died in 355 or in the spring of 354 BC. And his brothers Lycophron II and Peitholaos succeeded him in Pherai.

literature

  • Christopher Ehrhardt: Two Notes on Philip of Macedon's First Interventions in Thessaly. In: The Classical Quarterly. Vol. 17 (1967), pp. 296-301.
  • Thomas R. Martin: A Phantom Fragment of Theopompus and Philip II's First Campaign in Thessaly. In: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Vol. 86: 55-78 (1984).
  • Ernst Badian : Philipp II and the Last of the Thessalians. In: Ancient Macedonia. Vol. 6 (1999), pp. 111-113.
  • Slawomir Sprawski: The End of the Pheraean Tyranny. In: ΥΠΕΡΕΙΑ. Volume 5 (2010), pp. 181-189.
  • Hans Volkmann : Teisiphonos. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, column 560 f.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Xenophon , Hellenika 6, 4, 36-37; Diodorus 16, 14, 1; Plutarch , Pelopidas 35, 3.
  2. ^ Konon, FGrHist 26 F 1, 50.
  3. ↑ Diodorus 16:14 , 2.
  4. ↑ Theopompos , FGrHist 115 F 34.
  5. ↑ For the year of death, see Ehrhardt, p. 296.
personal data
SURNAME Tisiphonos from Pherai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Τισίφονος (Greek); Teisiphonos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thessalian ruler
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 355 BC BC or 354 BC Chr.