Tabalos
Family: Persian · Role: governor of Sardis · First appears: Book 1 · §148–157
Life events
- Cyrus entrusted Sardis to Tabalos, put the Lydian gold in Pactyas’s care, and marched away with Croesus.(Book 1 · §148–157 · 📍 Sardis)
- Pactyas led the Lydians in revolt and besieged Tabalos in the citadel.(Book 1 · §148–157 · 📍 Sardis)
- With: Pactyas Cyrus
- “Pactyas caused the Lydians to revolt from Tabalos and from Cyrus. This man went down to the sea, and having in his possession all the gold that there had been in Sardis, he hired for himself mercenaries and persuaded the men of the sea-coast to join his expedition. So he marched on Sardis and besieged Tabalos, having shut himself up in the citadel.”
Book 1 · §148–157
- employer: Cyrus “After this he entrusted Sardis to Tabalos a Persian, and the gold both of Croesus and of the other Lydians he gave to Pactyas a Lydian to take charge of, and himself marched away to Agbatana, taking with him Croesus and making for the present no account of the Ionians.”
- with Cyrus (Cyrus appointed Tabalos to take charge of Sardis.) “After this he entrusted Sardis to Tabalos a Persian”
- enemies with Pactyas (Pactyas led a revolt against Tabalos.) “Pactyas caused the Lydians to revolt from Tabalos and from Cyrus.”
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