Phanes

Family: Greek · Role: mercenary · First appears: Book 3 · §1–8

Life events

Phanes fled Amasis, escaped capture, and reached Persia.(Book 3 · §1–8 · 📍 Persia)
- With: Amasis Cambyses
- “This Phanes, having (as we may suppose) some quarrel with Amasis, fled away from Egypt in a ship, desiring to come to speech with Cambyses: and as he was of no small repute among the mercenaries and was very closely acquainted with all the affairs of Egypt, Amasis pursued him and considered it a matter of some moment to capture him: and he pursued by sending after him the most trusted of his eunuchs with a trireme, who captured him in Lykia; but having captured him he did not bring him back to Egypt, since Phanes got the better of him by cunning; for he made his guards drunk and escaped to Persia.”
Phanes advised Cambyses how to cross the waterless region and enter Egypt.(Book 3 · §1–8)
- With: Cambyses
- “So when Cambyses had made his resolve to march upon Egypt, and was in difficulty about the march, as to how he should get safely through the waterless region, this man came to him and besides informing of the other matters of Amasis, he instructed him also as to the march, advising him to send to the king of the Arabians and ask that he would give him safety of passage through this region.”

with Amasis (Phanes fled Amasis after a quarrel.) “This Phanes, having (as we may suppose) some quarrel with Amasis, fled away from Egypt in a ship, desiring to come to speech with Cambyses:”
employer: Amasis “There was among the foreign mercenaries of Amasis a man who was by race of Halicarnassos, and his name was Phanes”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.