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PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
The people of Pisa brought of themselves disaster on their own heads
by their hostility to the Eleans, and by their keenness to preside over the Olympic
games instead of them. At the eighth Festival (748 BC) they brought in Pheidon
of Argos, the most overbearing of the Greek tyrants, and held the games along
with him, while at the thirty-fourth Festival (644 BC) the people of Pisa, with
their king Pantaleon the son of Omphalion, collected an army from the neighborhood,
and held the Olympic games instead of the Eleans.
These Festivals, as well as the hundred and fourth (364 BC), which
was held by the Arcadians, are called "Non-Olympiads" by the Eleans,
who do not include them in a list of Olympiads. At the forty-eighth Festival (588
BC) , Damophon the son of Pantaleon gave the Eleans reasons for suspecting that
he was intriguing against them, but when they invaded the land of Pisa with an
army he persuaded them by prayers and oaths to return quietly home again
When Pyrrhus, the son of Pantaleon, succeeded his brother Damophon
as king, the people of Pisa of their own accord made war against Elis, and were
joined in their revolt from the Eleans by the people of Macistus and Scillus,
which are in Triphylia, and by the people of Dyspontium, another vassal community.
The list were closely related to the people of Pisa, and it was a tradition of
theirs that their founder had been Dysponteus the son of Oenomaus. It was the
fate of Pisa, and of all her allies, to be destroyed by the Eleans.
(Paus. 6.22.2-6.22.4)
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited November 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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