Tisamenus

Tisamenus (Ancient Greek: Τισαμενός) is the name of several people in classical history and mythology:

• Mythology
  • Tisamenus (son of Orestes), mythological king of Argos, and son of Orestes and Hermione.[1]
  • Tisamenus (King of Thebes), a king of Thebes, son of Thersander and Demonassa.[2]

• History
  • Tisamenus (son of Antiochus)
  • Tisamenus of Elis, an ancient Greek seer, and grandfather of the seer Agias of Sparta
  • Tisamenus, a descendant apparently of the above, who took part in the conspiracy of Cinadon, and was put to death for it in 397 BC.

Namesake

Tisamenus (insect), a stick insect in the family Heteropterygidae

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.8.3
2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.5.15

References

• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. 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.