Phye

Illustration of Pisistratus and Phye as Athena upon arrival at Athens. Barth, 1832.

Phye (Greek: Φύη, romanizedPhýē) was a young woman from Paeania who accompanied the tyrant Pisistratus in a chariot during his return to Athens in 546/5 BCE. Phye was dressed as the goddess Athena in order to deceive the people of Athens into believing that Peisistratos' return to Athens was divinely sanctioned.