Persian — Minor Figures
6 figures from History of the Peloponnesian War who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Arsaces
lieutenant · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 6
- Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 6 · employer: Tissaphernes “having been ill-treated by Arsaces, the Persian lieutenant of Tissaphernes.”
- Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 6 · with Tissaphernes “having been ill-treated by Arsaces, the Persian lieutenant of Tissaphernes.”
Pharnaces
father of Artabazus · first appears Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2
- 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 “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.”
Megabazus
first appears Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3
- Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3 · with Artaxerxes “First the Athenians were masters of Egypt, and the King sent Megabazus a Persian to Lacedaemon with money to bribe the Peloponnesians to invade Attica and so draw off the Athenians from Egypt.”
- Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3 · employer: Artaxerxes “First the Athenians were masters of Egypt, and the King sent Megabazus a Persian to Lacedaemon with money to bribe the Peloponnesians to invade Attica and so draw off the Athenians from Egypt.”
Cambyses
king · first appears Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3
- Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3 · parent: Cyrus “Subsequently the Ionians attained to great naval strength in the reign of Cyrus, the first king of the Persians, and of his son Cambyses, and while they were at war with the former commanded for a while the Ionian sea.”
- Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3 · with Darius “Indeed it was only shortly the Persian war, and the death of Darius the successor of Cambyses, that the Sicilian tyrants and the Corcyraeans acquired any large number of galleys.”
Megabates
previous governor in the satrapy of Daskylion · first appears Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2
- Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2 · with Artabazus “He sent off Artabazus, son of Pharnaces, to the sea with orders to supersede Megabates, the previous governor in the satrapy of Daskylion”
Artaphernes
envoy · first appears Book 4 · Chapter 13 · Part 2
- Book 4 · Chapter 13 · Part 2 · with Aristides son of Archippus “Aristides, son of Archippus, one of the commanders of the Athenian ships sent to collect money from the allies, arrested at Eion, on the Strymon, Artaphernes, a Persian, on his way from the King to Lacedaemon.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.