Ariobarzanes
Family: Persians · Role: official · First appears: Book 1, section 4
In Book 1, section 4, Alcibiades and his companions received safe conduct to Ariobarzanes, with orders for their further transportation. In Book 5, section 1, Antalcidas drew forces from Ariobarzanes’s territory, helping bring his fleet to more than eighty ships; the two had a long-standing friendship.
In B.C. 368, Philiscus of Abydos arrived as an envoy from Ariobarzanes with large sums of money.
Relationship record
Life events
- Syracusan, Ionian, and Ariobarzanes's forces joined Antalcidas, bringing his fleet to more than eighty ships.(Book 5, section 1, part 2/3 · 📍 Ionia)
- With: Antalcidas Polyxenus Tiribazus
- “Presently the Syracusan squadron of twenty vessels joined him, and again another squadron from Ionia, or rather so much of that district as lay under the control of Tiribazus. The full quota of the contingent was further made up from the territory of Ariobarzanes”
- Philiscus of Abydos arrived on an embassy from Ariobarzanes with large sums of money.(Book 7, section 1, part 2/4)
- With: Philiscus of Abydos
- “Self-esteem amounting to arrogance--such was the spirit which animated each section of the allies, when a new phase was introduced by the arrival of Philiscus of Abydos on an embassy from Ariobarzanes with large sums of money.”
Book 1, section 4
- with Alcibiades (The passage describes safe conduct for the Athenian ambassadors, not a direct relationship with Alcibiades.) “Then at last they received safe conduct to Ariobarzanes, with orders for their further transportation.”
Book 5, section 1, part 2/3
- friends with Antalcidas “The full quota of the contingent was further made up from the territory of Ariobarzanes (which whom Antalcidas kept up a friendship of long standing), in the absence of Pharnabazus, who by this date had already been summoned up country on the occasion of his marriage with the king's daughter.”
Book 7, section 1, part 2/4
- with Philiscus of Abydos (Philiscus arrived as Ariobarzanes' envoy.) “Self-esteem amounting to arrogance--such was the spirit which animated each section of the allies, when a new phase was introduced by the arrival of Philiscus of Abydos on an embassy from Ariobarzanes with large sums of money.”
- with Philiscus of Abydos (Philiscus arrives as Ariobarzanes's envoy.) “Self-esteem amounting to arrogance--such was the spirit which animated each section of the allies, when a new phase was introduced by the arrival of Philiscus of Abydos on an embassy from Ariobarzanes with large sums of money.”
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