Cyrus

Family: Persians · Role: governor · First appears: Book 1, section 4

In 407 B.C., Cyrus became governor of all the seaboard districts. He asked Pharnabazus to hand over the detained Athenian ambassadors or delay sending them home. At Ephesus, he promised support for the Lacedaemonians’ war and agreed to their payment terms with Lysander. After dinner, he raised the sailors’ pay, cleared their arrears and advanced a month’s wages. He also refused to receive the Athenian ambassadors, despite Tissaphernes’ appeals.

In Book 2, Cyrus put Autoboesaces and Mitraeus to death. Before setting out inland to visit his father, Dariaeus, he gave Lysander the tributes from his cities and his ready money, and affirmed his friendship with Lacedaemon and Lysander. Later, he sent messengers to Lacedaemon seeking requital for his service in the war with Athens. Samius and his fleet were placed at Cyrus’s service and sailed with him to Cilicia, preventing Syennesis from opposing his advance by land. In 401 B.C., Cyrus died in battle during the expedition against his brother the king.