Pharandates

Family: Persian · Role: commander · First appears: Book 7 · §70–85

Life events

• Pharandates commanded the Mares and Colchians; Masistios commanded the Alarodians and Saspeirians.(Book 7 · §70–85)
  • With: Teaspis Masistios Siromitres
  • “Of the Mares and Colchians the commander was Pharandates the son of Teaspis. The Alarodians and Saspeirians served armed like the Colchians; and of these the commander was Masistios the son of Siromitres.”
• Pharandates took a woman by force and kept her prisoner.(Book 9 · §71–78 · 📍 Cos)
  • “I am by race of Cos, the daughter of Hegetorides the son of Antagoras; and the Persian took me by force in Cos and kept me a prisoner.”

Book 7 · §70–85

• parent: Teaspis “Of the Mares and Colchians the commander was Pharandates the son of Teaspis.”

Book 9 · §71–78

• parent: Teaspis “the concubine of Pharandates the son of Teaspis a Persian”
• with Hegetorides (Pharandates is identified in the preceding passage as the Persian whose concubine she was.) “the Persian took me by force in Cos and kept me a prisoner.”

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