Spithridates
Family: Persians · Role: Persian who revolted · First appears: Book 3, section 4, part 1/3
In Book 3, section 4, Lysander spoke with Spithridates after learning of the slight Pharnabazus had put upon him. He persuaded Spithridates to revolt with his children, belongings, and about two hundred troops; Spithridates then travelled with his son and Persian companions to present himself to Agesilaus.
By Book 4, Spithridates and Agesilaus were friends: Spithridates advised him, “I should like to advise you to take this girl to wife.” Spithridates was an enemy of Pharnabazus, whom Agesilaus had made “a fugitive and a vagabond in his own vast territory.” After feeling injured and insulted, Spithridates and others left by night for Sardis to join Ariaeus, who had also revolted against the king.
Relationship record
Book 3, section 4, part 1/3
- with Pharnabazus (Pharnabazus had slighted Spithridates.) “Lysander, being made aware of a slight which had been put upon Spithridates the Persian by Pharnabazus”
- with Agesilaus (Spithridates presented himself to Agesilaus after revolting.) “The next step was to deposit all the goods safely in Cyzicus, and the last to get on shipboard with Spithridates and his son, and so to present himself with his Persian friends to Agesilaus.”
- with Lysander (Lysander persuaded Spithridates to revolt.) “Lysander, being made aware of a slight which had been put upon Spithridates the Persian by Pharnabazus, got into conversation with the injured man, and so worked upon him that he was persuaded to bring his children and his personal belongings, and with a couple of hundred troops to revolt.”
Book 4, section 1, part 1/2
- friends with Agesilaus “For my part, as you have proved so good a friend to us, I should like to advise you to take this girl to wife.”
- enemies with Pharnabazus “He has made the satrap, as you see, a fugitive and a vagabond in his own vast territory.”
- with Ariaeus (Spithridates and the Paphlagonians left to join Ariaeus.) “They deemed themselves at once injured and insulted, got their kit together in the night, and made off in the direction of Sardis to join Ariaeus without mistrust, seeing that he too had revolted and gone to war with the king.”
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