Peisander was the author of a
Heracleia (Ἡράκλεια), in which he introduced a new conception of the hero
Heracles' 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 Heracles at ten. 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 (22) 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 and wrote a poem on the mixed marriages of gods and mortals, after the manner of the
Hesiodic
Catalogue of Women. ==References==