Pharnabazus
Family: Persian · Role: satrap · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 4
In Book 2, Pharnabazus was to send people entrusted to him up-country to the King. By Book 8, Calligeitus and Timagoras son of Athenagoras, exiles living at his court, had arrived at Lacedaemon on a mission from him to procure a fleet for the Hellespont.
At Abydos, the city revolted to Dercyllidas and Pharnabazus. Later, Pharnabazus urged Mindarus to bring the fleet to the Hellespont; in the summer, Mindarus left Miletus with seventy-three ships and sailed there.
Relationship record
Life events
- Calligeitus and Timagoras arrived on Pharnabazus’s mission to obtain a fleet for the Hellespont.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- With: Calligeitus Laophon Timagoras son of Athenagoras Athenagoras Pharnaces
- “Calligeitus, son of Laophon, a Megarian, and Timagoras, son of Athenagoras, a Cyzicene, both of them exiles from their country and living at the court of Pharnabazus, son of Pharnaces, arrived at Lacedaemon upon a mission from Pharnabazus, to procure a fleet for the Hellespont”
- Abydos revolted to Dercyllidas and Pharnabazus.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 4 · 📍 Abydos)
- With: Dercyllidas
- “Abydos in the Hellespont revolted to him and Pharnabazus”
- Mindarus left Miletus with seventy-three ships and sailed for the Hellespont.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4 · 📍 Miletus)
- With: Mindarus
- “until at length, at about the period of the summer which we have now reached, Mindarus yielded to his importunities, and, with great order and at a moment’s notice, in order to elude the enemy at Samos, weighed anchor with seventy-three ships from Miletus and set sail for the Hellespont.”
Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 4
- with Cyrus (The envoys sought a route through Pharnabazus to the King; the passage does not state that Cyrus and Pharnabazus interacted.) “to Pharnabazus, who was to send them up the country to the King.”
Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1
- with Calligeitus (Calligeitus arrived at Lacedaemon on a mission from Pharnabazus.) “Calligeitus, son of Laophon, a Megarian, and Timagoras, son of Athenagoras, a Cyzicene, both of them exiles from their country and living at the court of Pharnabazus, son of Pharnaces, arrived at Lacedaemon upon a mission from Pharnabazus, to procure a fleet for the Hellespont;”
- with Timagoras son of Athenagoras (Timagoras arrived at Lacedaemon on a mission from Pharnabazus.) “Calligeitus, son of Laophon, a Megarian, and Timagoras, son of Athenagoras, a Cyzicene, both of them exiles from their country and living at the court of Pharnabazus, son of Pharnaces, arrived at Lacedaemon upon a mission from Pharnabazus, to procure a fleet for the Hellespont;”
Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 4
- with Dercyllidas (Jointly involved in the revolt of Abydos.) “Abydos in the Hellespont revolted to him and Pharnabazus”
Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 1
- with Clearchus (Pharnabazus invited and offered pay to the Peloponnesian fleet.) “the Peloponnesians having refused to fight with their fleet united, through not thinking themselves a match for the enemy, and being at a loss where to look for money for such a number of ships, especially as Tissaphernes proved so bad a paymaster, sent off Clearchus, son of Ramphias, with forty ships to Pharnabazus, agreeably to the original instructions from Peloponnese; Pharnabazus inviting them and being prepared to furnish pay, and Byzantium besides sending offers to revolt to them.”
Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4
- with Mindarus (Pharnabazus invited the Peloponnesian fleet, and Mindarus acted on his importunities.) “Meanwhile Pharnabazus was inviting them to come, and making every effort to get the fleet and, like Tissaphernes, to cause the revolt of the cities in his government still subject to Athens, founding great hopes on his success; until at length, at about the period of the summer which we have now reached, Mindarus yielded to his importunities, and, with great order and at a moment’s notice, in order to elude the enemy at Samos, weighed anchor with seventy-three ships from Miletus and set sail for the Hellespont.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.