Peisander of Camirus in Rhodes, Greek epic poet, supposed to have flourished about 640 B.C.

He was the author of a Heracleia, in which he introduced a new conception of the hero Hercules costume, the lions skin and club taking the place of the older armor of the heroic era. He is also said to have fixed the number of the labors of Hercules at twelve. The work, which according to Clement of Alexandria (Stromata, yr. ch. 2) was simply a plagiarism from an unknown Pisinus of Lindus, enjoyed so high a reputation that the Alexandrian critics admitted the author to the epic canon. From an epigram (20) of Theocritus we learn that a statue was erected in honor of Peisander by his countrymen. He is to be distinguished from Peisander of Laranda in Lycia, who lived during the reign of Alexander Severus (AD. 208 to 205), and wrote a poem on the mixed marriages of gods and mortals, after the manner of the Eoiai of Hesiod. Theocritus, the creator of bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC. Little is known of him beyond what can be inferred from his writings. ... Alexander Severus Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander (October 1, 208- March 18?, 235), commonly called Alexander Severus, Roman emperor from AD 222 to 235, was born at Arca Caesarea in Palestine. ...

See fragments in G. Kinkel, Epicorum graecorum fragmenta (1878); also F. G. Welcher, Kuleana Schriften, vol. i. (1844), on the twelve labors of Hercules in Peisander.

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