Tiribazus
Family: Persians · Role: king's general · First appears: Book 4, section 8, part 2/4
In 392 B.C., Tiribazus received Antalcidas, sent to pursue a peace between Lacedaemon and the king, but the negotiations failed. Accepting the Lacedaemonians’ accusations, he arrested and imprisoned Conon as someone guilty of wrongdoing against the king; he also privately gave Antalcidas money.
In 388–387 B.C., Antalcidas returned from the Persian court with the king’s alliance and military support, and forces from Ionia under Tiribazus’s control joined his fleet. Tiribazus later summoned those willing to hear the king’s peace terms, and they promptly accepted the invitation.
Relationship record
Life events
- Antalcidas proposed a peace between Lacedaemon and the king, but the negotiations proved abortive.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4)
- With: Antalcidas
- “And so it came to pass that this peace proved abortive, and the representatives departed each to his own home.”
- Tiribazus arrested Conon and shut him up.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4)
- With: Conon
- “Further, accepting the statements of the Lacedaemonians as true, he took on himself to secure the person of Conon, as guilty of wrongdoing towards the king, and shut him up.”
- Antalcidas returned from the Persian court having secured the Persian king's alliance and military support.(Book 5, section 1, part 2/3 · 📍 the Persian court)
- With: Antalcidas
- “Antalcidas had now returned from the Persian court with Tiribazus. The negotiations had been successful. He had secured the alliance of the Persian king and his military co-operation in case the Athenians and their allies refused to abide by the peace which the king dictated.”
- Syracusan, Ionian, and Ariobarzanes's forces joined Antalcidas, bringing his fleet to more than eighty ships.(Book 5, section 1, part 2/3 · 📍 Ionia)
- With: Antalcidas Polyxenus Ariobarzanes
- “Presently the Syracusan squadron of twenty vessels joined him, and again another squadron from Ionia, or rather so much of that district as lay under the control of Tiribazus. The full quota of the contingent was further made up from the territory of Ariobarzanes”
- Tiribazus summoned those willing to hear the king’s peace terms to attend.(Book 5, section 1, part 3/3)
- “Hence, when Tiribazus issued a summons calling on all who were willing to listen to the terms of peace sent down by the king to present themselves, the invitation was promptly accepted.”
Book 4, section 8, part 2/4
- with Antalcidas (Antalcidas was sent as an envoy to Tiribazus.) “With this intention they sent Antalcidas to Tiribazus: his orders were to carry out this policy and, if possible, to arrange a peace between Lacedaemon and the king.”
- with Conon (Tiribazus arrested and imprisoned Conon.) “Further, accepting the statements of the Lacedaemonians as true, he took on himself to secure the person of Conon, as guilty of wrongdoing towards the king, and shut him up.”
- with Antalcidas (Tiribazus privately gave money to Antalcidas.) “a scruple which did not prevent him from privately presenting Antalcidas with a sum of money”
Book 5, section 1, part 1/3
- protégé: Antalcidas (Antalcidas's appointment was intended to gratify Tiribazus.) “Hierax was still in Rhodes when the Lacedaemonians sent out a new admiral, Antalcidas; they believed that they could not find a better mode of gratifying Tiribazus.”
Book 5, section 1, part 2/3
- with Antalcidas (They returned together from the Persian court.) “Antalcidas had now returned from the Persian court with Tiribazus.”
Book 5, section 1, part 3/3
- with Artaxerxes (Tiribazus summoned listeners to the king's peace terms.) “Hence, when Tiribazus issued a summons calling on all who were willing to listen to the terms of peace sent down by the king to present themselves, the invitation was promptly accepted.”
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