Pittacos Dorotheides (472-429 BC) was an Athenian strategos during the Peloponnesian War.
Biography[]
Pittacos Dorotheides was born in Athens in 472 BC, and he served in the Athenian military before rising to the rank of strategos by the time of the Peloponnesian War. During the Plague of Athens, he was ordered by the populist leader Cleon to prevent anyone from leaving the city, and he was also given special orders to bring Pericles' mistress Aspasia to him. He halted Aspasia, Kassandra, Hippocrates, and Socrates at the port of Piraeus and demanded that they return to the city and that Aspasia come with him, but Aspasia refused. Kassandra then told the others to go as she fought Pittacos and his men, and all of the Athenian soldiers were killed in the ensuing fight.