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Pharnabazus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pharnabazus , d. after 374 BC, Persian governor...the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger. Pharnabazus and his fellow satrap Tissaphernes encouraged...in the Peloponnesian War and later. Pharnabazus collaborated (394) with Conon in the...
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Artaxerxes II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...relied heavily upon his officials; in addition, the satraps Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes had real ruling power. They managed by...of Cyprus but finally (c.381) submitted to the king. Pharnabazus and Iphicrates, sent to reduce Egypt, disagreed and accomplished...
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Xenophon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Seuthes, King of Thrace. In the spring of 399 others joined the Lacedaemonian Thibron, who warred against Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus. We have no knowledge of Xenophon's activities in the years immediately thereafter. Three years later Xenophon joined...
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Tissaphernes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...allies (the Ten Thousand) and treacherously murdered Clearchus and four other Greek leaders ( Xenophon ). Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus were the chief figures in Artaxerxes' reign. After Tissaphernes asserted supremacy over the Ionian cities, he was involved...
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Darius II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...reign in quelling revolts in Syria, Lydia (413), and Media (410). He lost Egypt (410), but through the diplomacy of Pharnabazus , Tissaphernes , and Cyrus the Younger he secured much influence in Greece in the Peloponnesian War. Artaxerxes II succeeded...
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Nekhtnebf I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...gallant defense of the fortresses of the Nile delta and then of Memphis, he saved his country from the Persian invasion of Pharnabazus in 374 BC This defeat of the Persians touched off a general revolt of the satraps of W Asia, which occupied Persia for the...
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Alcibiades
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...There in 405 BC he attempted to warn the Athenian fleet at Aegospotamos against a surprise attack by the Spartans, but his advice was ignored. In 404 at the behest of Lysander, the Persian satrap Pharnabazus had Alcibiades murdered.
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Agesilaus II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...to Persia despite Sparta's promises, and in 396 BC Agesilaus went there to oppose the Persian satraps Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus by attacking them. He managed to rout Tissaphernes, but Persian naval power drove him back to Greece, where he won (394...
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