# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marsyas-of-pella
# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:23:34.548Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marsyas-of-pella"
name: "Marsyas of Pella"
slug: "marsyas-of-pella"
description: "Marsyas of Pella, son of Periander, was a Greek historian. According to the Suda Encyclopedia, he was a brother of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, who was afterwards king of Asia, by which an uterine brother alone can be meant, as the father of Antigonus was named Philip. Both of these statements point to his being of noble birth, and appear strangely at variance with the assertion that he was a mere professional grammarian Grammatodidascalus, a statement which Robert Geier conjectures plausibly enough to refer in fact to Marsyas of Philippi. Suidas, indeed, seems in many points to have confounded the two. The only other fact transmitted to us concerning the life of Marsyas, is that he was appointed by Demetrius Poliorcetes to command one division of his fleet in the Battle of Salamis in Cyprus. However, this circumstance is alone sufficient to show that he was a person who himself took an active part in public affairs, not a mere man of letters. It is probable that he followed the fortunes of his stepbrother Antigonus."
tagline: "Historian and writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-400"
deathDate: "-360"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.1
  momentum:             2.068965517241379
  historical:           13.80648
  currentAttention:     11.49425287356322
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%A9%E6%8B%89%E7%9A%84%E7%8E%9B%E8%80%B3%E7%BB%AA%E9%98%BF%E6%96%AF"
    title: "佩拉的玛耳绪阿斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "مارسياس من بيلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Марсий Пелски"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A0rsies_de_Pel%C2%B7la"
    title: "Màrsies de Pel·la"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas_von_Pella"
    title: "Marsyas von Pella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%83%CF%8D%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%A0%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Μαρσύας ο Πελλαίος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas_of_Pella"
    title: "Marsyas of Pella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsias_de_Pela"
    title: "Marsias de Pela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas_Pellalainen"
    title: "Marsyas Pellalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas_de_Pella"
    title: "Marsyas de Pella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas_na_Pella"
    title: "Marsyas na Pella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellai_Marsz%C3%BCasz"
    title: "Pellai Marszüasz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas_dari_Pella"
    title: "Marsyas dari Pella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsia_(storico)"
    title: "Marsia (storico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas_Pellaeus"
    title: "Marsyas Pellaeus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rcias_de_Pela"
    title: "Márcias de Pela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%8B"
    title: "Марсий из Пеллы"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump