TISSAPHERNES

tĭsˌəfûrˈnēz, d. 395 b.c., Persian satrap of coastal Asia Minor (c.413–395 b.c.). He was encouraged by Alcibiades (412) to intervene in the Peloponnesian War in support of Sparta. Out of favor with Cyrus the Younger, he rebuilt his fortunes by siding with Artaxerxes II and helping him to defeat Cyrus in the battle of Cunaxa (401). He pursued the retreating Greek 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 in war with the Spartans, and Agesilaus II defeated him in 395. He was removed from office and assassinated.

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Thucydides - Vol. 2
Book by Benjamin Jowett; Clarendon Press, 1900
Subjects: Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C, Inscriptions, Greek
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The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates
Book by Mark Munn; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Civilization--Political Aspects, Democracy--Greece--Athens--Historiography, Greece--History--Athenian Supremacy, 479-431 B.C
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A Commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos: Response to Sources in the Presentation of Character
Book by D. R. Shipley; University of Oxford, 1997
Subjects: Agesilaus--Ii--King Of Sparta, Biography As A Literary Form, Greece--History--Spartan And Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C, Greece--History--Spartan And Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C--Historiography, Greece--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Plutarch--Agesilaus, Plutarch--Technique, Sparta (Extinct City)--Historiography, Sparta (Extinct City)--History
...confrontation with superior force: he engaged Tissaphernes before his cavalry reached Sardis...Xenophon when Agesilaos surpassed Tissaphernes in deception Agesilaos, 1 . 17...between the practices of Agesilaos and Tissaphernes epitomizes the two types of deception...
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
Book by Thucydides, Richard Crawley; E. P. Dutton, 1950
Subjects: Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
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Studies in Greek History and Thought
Book by P. A. Brunt; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Greece--Intellectual Life--146 B.C, Greece--Politics And Government--146 B.C, Historiography--Greece--History
...men as different as Socrates and Tissaphernes. Now there are a number of incidents...account of the negotiations with Tissaphernes. Kirchhoff long ago argued with much...agreements between the Spartans and Tissaphernes from copies taken by Alcibiades...
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Shakespeare's Dionysian Prince: Drama, Politics, and the "Athenian" History Play
Journal article by Grace Tiffany; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999
Subjects: Bacchus (Mythological figure)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Analysis, Dionysus (Mythological figure)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Henry V (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Historical drama, English--Personalities, Shakespeare, William--Sources
...superfluously, and gave him self to all mirthe and pleasure. In Thracia, he dranke ever, or was allwayes a horse backe. If he came to Tissaphernes, lieutenaunt of the mightie king of Persia: he farre exceeded the magnificence of Persia in pompe and sumptuousnes. And these...


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Plutarch & the Issue of Character
Magazine article by Roger Kimball; New Criterion, Vol. 19, December 2000
Subjects: Literature and history--Analysis, Plutarch--Philosophy, Politics and literature--History
...drinking; in Thessaly, ever on horseback; and when he lived with Tissaphernes the Persian satrap, he exceeded the Persians themselves in...son by her. He then fled to Sardis where he was taken in by Tissaphernes. In short order, he betrayed him as well. Briefly imprisoned...


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Tissaphernes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TISSAPHERNES tis fur nez, d. 395 b.c., Persian satrap of coastal Asia Minor (c.413...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 in war with the...
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Cyrus the Younger
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Darius died (404 b.c.) and was accused (probably justly) by Tissaphernes of a plot to murder his elder brother and the legitimate...was marched E from Sardis to Tarsus and then into Syria. Tissaphernes rushed to court with the news, and Artaxerxes set out to...
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Agesilaus II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...promises, and in 396 b.c. 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 b.c.) a...
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Cunaxa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Xenophon in the Anabasis. Clearchus , Spartan mercenary leader under Cyrus, chose to attack the Persian left wing (under Tissaphernes), which he completely routed and pursued. When he and his Ten Thousand returned, they found that Cyrus had fought hard in...
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Pharnabazus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and in the same year he supported Artaxerxes in the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger. Pharnabazus and his fellow satrap Tissaphernes encouraged the revival of Persian power in the Greek world by alternately supporting Sparta and Athens in the Peloponnesian...
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