Pharnaces

Family: Persia · Role: father of Artabazus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2

In Book 1, Section 5, Artabazus, son of Pharnaces, was sent to the sea with orders to replace Megabates as governor in the satrapy of Daskylion.

By Book 8, Section 24, Pharnabazus, son of Pharnaces, had sent Calligeitus and Timagoras to Lacedaemon to seek a fleet for the Hellespont. In Section 25, the sons of Pharnaces joined Tissaphernes and Hieramenes in concluding a convention with the Lacedaemonians and their allies in the plain of the Maeander.

Relationship record

Life events

• Calligeitus and Timagoras arrived on Pharnabazus’s mission to obtain a fleet for the Hellespont.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
  • With: Calligeitus Laophon Timagoras son of Athenagoras Athenagoras Pharnabazus
  • “Calligeitus, son of Laophon, a Megarian, and Timagoras, son of Athenagoras, a Cyzicene, both of them exiles from their country and living at the court of Pharnabazus, son of Pharnaces, arrived at Lacedaemon upon a mission from Pharnabazus, to procure a fleet for the Hellespont”
• Tissaphernes, Hieramenes, and the sons of Pharnaces concluded a convention with the Lacedaemonians and their allies.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 3 · 📍 the plain of the Maeander)
  • With: Tissaphernes Hieramenes
  • “a convention was concluded in the plain of the Maeander by the Lacedaemonians and their allies with Tissaphernes, Hieramenes, and the sons of Pharnaces, concerning the affairs of the King and of the Lacedaemonians and their allies.”

Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2

• child: Artabazus “He sent off Artabazus, son of Pharnaces, to the sea with orders to supersede Megabates, the previous governor in the satrapy of Daskylion”

Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 3

• with Tissaphernes (Pharnaces is named as the father of the sons who were parties to the convention; the text does not say Pharnaces himself participated.) “In the thirteenth year of the reign of Darius, while Alexippidas was ephor at Lacedaemon, a convention was concluded in the plain of the Maeander by the Lacedaemonians and their allies with Tissaphernes, Hieramenes, and the sons of Pharnaces, concerning the affairs of the King and of the Lacedaemonians and their allies.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.