Pisidice

In Greek mythology, Pisidice (/paɪˈsɪdɪsiː/, Ancient Greek: Πεισιδίκη, Peisidíkē) or Peisidice, was one of the following individuals:

• Pisidice, daughter of Aeolus, mother of Antiphus and Actor by Myrmidon.[1][2]
• Pisidice, an alternate name for Demonice, mother of Thestius by Ares.[3]
• Pisidice, daughter of Pelias, who, together with her sisters, killed their father, as Medea tricked them into believing this was needed to rejuvenate him.[4]
• Pisidice, a Pylian princess and daughter of King Nestor and Anaxibia[5] or Eurydice[6]. She was sister to Polycaste, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, Pisistratus, Antilochus and Thrasymedes.[7][8] She was probably the Pisidice who became the mother of Borus by Periclymenus, brother of Nestor and consequently her uncle.[9]
• Pisidice, a princess of Methymna, who fell in love with Achilles as he besieged her city, and promised to put Methymna into his possession if he would marry her. He agreed to her terms but, as soon as the city was his, he ordered that she be stoned to death as a traitor.[10][11]
• Pisidice, daughter of Leucon and mother of a son Argynnos, who was loved by Agamemnon and drowned in River Cephissus.[12]

Notes

1. Catalogue of Women fr. 10(a)
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.7.3
3. Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 22. 1
4. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 35; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 9. 10; 1. 9. 27; Hyginus, Fabulae 24
5. Homer, Odyssey 3.451–52
6. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.9
7. Homer, Odyssey, 3. 452
8. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.9.9
9. Scholia on Plato, Symposium, 208d, citing Hellanicus
10. Parthenius, Love Romances, 21
11. Compare with the stories of Scylla and Minos, and of Comaetho and Amphitryon; see also Leucophrye
12. Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Argynnion

References

• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Plutarch, Morals translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.