Struthas
Family: Persians · Role: satrap · First appears: Book 4, section 8, part 2/4
In 392 B.C., the king sent Struthas to govern the seaboard district. Friendly to Athens and hostile to the Lacedaemonians, he became the target of their forceful response: they sent Thibron to attack him.
In 391 B.C., Struthas’s cavalry defeated Thibron’s forces on the plain of the Maeander, killing Thibron and Thersander. In 390 B.C., Diphridas was ordered to continue the war against him. On the way to Sardis, Diphridas captured Tigranes, Struthas’s son-in-law, and Tigranes’s wife, and received a large ransom.
Relationship record
Life events
- The king sent Struthas to take charge of the seaboard district.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4)
- “On the arrival of Tiribazus at the palace, the king sent down Struthas to take charge of the seaboard district.”
- The Lacedaemonians sent Thibron to attack Struthas by force of arms.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4)
- Struthas's cavalry defeated Thibron's forces, killing Thibron and Thersander.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4 · 📍 the plain of the Maeander)
- With: Thibron Thersander
- “Thibron and Thersander were the first to be cut down, and when these had fallen the rest of the troops were easily turned.”
- Diphridas was ordered to gather Thibron's survivors and continue the war against Struthas.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4 · 📍 Asia)
- With: Diphridas Thibron
- “His orders were to cross over into Asia and to secure the states which had received Thibron. He was also to pick up the survivors of Thibron's army, and with these troops, aided by a second army which he would collect from any other quarter open to him, he was to prosecute the war against Struthas.”
- Diphridas captured Tigranes and his wife on their way to Sardis and received a large ransom.(Book 4, section 8, part 2/4 · 📍 Sardis)
- With: Diphridas Tigranes
- “Diphridas followed out his instructions, and amongst other achievements was fortunate enough to capture Tigranes, the son-in-law of Struthas, with his wife, on their road to Sardis.”
Book 4, section 8, part 2/4
- with Agesilaus (Struthas remembered the harm Agesilaus had caused the king's country.) “The latter, however, was a strong partisan of Athens and her allies, since he found it impossible to forget the long list of evils which the king's country had suffered at the hands of Agesilaus; so that the Lacedaemonians, contrasting the hostile disposition of the new satrap towards themselves with his friendliness to the Athenians, sent Thibron to deal with him by force of arms.”
- with Thibron (Thibron was sent to fight Struthas.) “The latter, however, was a strong partisan of Athens and her allies, since he found it impossible to forget the long list of evils which the king's country had suffered at the hands of Agesilaus; so that the Lacedaemonians, contrasting the hostile disposition of the new satrap towards themselves with his friendliness to the Athenians, sent Thibron to deal with him by force of arms.”
- with Tigranes (Tigranes is identified as Struthas's son-in-law.) “Diphridas followed out his instructions, and amongst other achievements was fortunate enough to capture Tigranes, the son-in-law of Struthas, with his wife, on their road to Sardis.”
- enemies with Agesilaus (Struthas was hostile to Lacedaemon in part because of Agesilaus's earlier actions.) “The latter, however, was a strong partisan of Athens and her allies, since he found it impossible to forget the long list of evils which the king's country had suffered at the hands of Agesilaus; so that the Lacedaemonians, contrasting the hostile disposition of the new satrap towards themselves with his friendliness to the Athenians, sent Thibron to deal with him by force of arms.”
- enemies with Thibron (Thibron was sent to fight Struthas.) “so that the Lacedaemonians, contrasting the hostile disposition of the new satrap towards themselves with his friendliness to the Athenians, sent Thibron to deal with him by force of arms.”
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