In Hellenistic poetic summaries (notably a passage preserved in Parthenius quoting The Founding of Lesbos), Pisidice, daughter of the ruling family of Methymna on Lesbos, saw Achilles from the city walls, was (in one recension) immediately made to fall in love with him, and sent her slave-nurse to negotiate marriage in return for delivering the city. She secretly unbarred the gates and admitted Achilles' host; after Methymna was taken and its people slaughtered or enslaved, Achilles—disgusted at her betrayal—had his garrison stone her to death for treason. The tale is preserved in a Hellenistic-poetic context and is treated as part of an older epic motif of maidens betraying their cities for invading heroes.
Surviving summaries provide no concrete physical description beyond identifying Pisidice as a maiden/princess of Methymna and the daughter of the city's king and queen. No details of age, dress, or physiognomy are preserved in the extant accounts.
Pisidice is a mortal human with no supernatural powers in the sources. Her notable capacities are human agency and persuasion: she falls in love (one account attributes this to Aphrodite), negotiates via her nurse/slave, and physically unbars the city gates to admit an invading force. Her behavior exemplifies treachery born of erotic infatuation and results in severe communal punishment.
Weaknesses
- conditionerotic infatuation (described in one account as caused by Aphrodite)
Wards
- otherNone attested in sources (no cultic or apotropaic practices associated with Pisidice are recorded)
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- [2]Parthenius of Nicaea, The Founding of Lesbos (summary as preserved in Parthenius). Summary passage preserved in Parthenius quoting The Founding of Lesbos (Hellenistic poem); modern summaries and commentary.literary