Tissaphernes
Family: Persian · Role: satrap of Ionia · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 9
Life events
- Agesilaus defeats Tissaphernes’s Persian army near the river Hermus.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Sardis)
- With: Agesilaus
- “And fighting a battle with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Ionia, in the plain near the river Hermus, Agesilaus defeated the Persian cavalry and infantry”
- Artaxerxes condemns Tissaphernes and transfers his satrapy to Tithraustes.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Sardis)
- With: Artaxerxes Tithraustes
- “he condemned Tissaphernes to death, although he had in former times done him signal service, and gave his satrapy to Tithraustes”
Book 3 · Chapter 9
- enemies with Agesilaus (They fought against one another.) “And fighting a battle with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Ionia, in the plain near the river Hermus, Agesilaus defeated the Persian cavalry and infantry”
- with Artaxerxes (Artaxerxes condemned Tissaphernes despite his former service.) “he condemned Tissaphernes to death, although he had in former times done him signal service”
Also listed in Persian — Minor Figures
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.