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Pharnabazus (in Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 Fa???ßa???; lived 4th century BC) was a Persian general, son of Artabazus
Artabazus of Phrygia

Artabazus was a Persians general and satrap.Artabazus was sent in 362 BC, in the reign of Artaxerxes II of Persia, against the revolted Datames, satrap of Cappadocia, but was defeated by the bravery and resolution of the latter....
. He joined his father exile at the Macedon
Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
ian court in the years 353
353 BC

Events...
–343 BC. He returned in Persia when his father made peace with the king Artaxerxes III
Artaxerxes III of Persia

Artaxerxes III of Persia , was the List of kings of Persia and the eleventh Emperor of the Achaemenid Empire and the first Pharaoh of the History of Achaemenid Egypt#The second Egyptian satrapy of Egypt....
; Pharnabazus became brother-in-law of Memnon
Memnon of Rhodes

Memnon of Rhodes was the commander of the Greece mercenaries working for the Persian Empire king Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedon invaded Persia in 334 BC and won the Battle of the Granicus River....
, under whose guidance he gained military experience. When Memnon died in 333 BC he assumed the command of the Persian fleet with Autophradates
Autophradates

Autophradates was a Persians who distinguished himself as a general in the reign of Artaxerxes III of Persia and Darius III of Persia. In the reign of the former he made Artabazus, the revolted satrap of Lydia and Ionia, his prisoner, but afterwards set him free....
. They succeeded in reducing Mytilene
Mytilene

Mytilene is the Capital city of Lesbos Island, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, and capital of Lesbos Prefecture and the Northern Aegean region....
, Tenedos
Tenedos

Tenedos, officially referred to as Bozcaada in Turkey is a small island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Bozcaada Districts of Turkey of ?anakkale Province Provinces of Turkey in Turkey....
, and Chios
Chios

Chios is the fifth largest of the Greece list of islands of Greece, situated in the Aegean Sea seven kilometres off the Turkey coast. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages....
, and, having dispatched some ships to Cos
Kos

Kos or Cos is a Greece island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of G?kova. It measures 40 km by 8 km, and is only 4 km from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria....
 and Halicarnassus
Halicarnassus

Halicarnassus was an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Anatolia , on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf . It was the site of the Siege of Halicarnassus, between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire....
, they sailed with 100 of their fastest vessels to Siphnus
Sifnos

Sifnos is an island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades island group in Greece. The main town on the island is known as Apollonia located near the center of the island....
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Pharnabazus (in Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 Fa???ßa???; lived 4th century BC) was a Persian general, son of Artabazus
Artabazus of Phrygia

Artabazus was a Persians general and satrap.Artabazus was sent in 362 BC, in the reign of Artaxerxes II of Persia, against the revolted Datames, satrap of Cappadocia, but was defeated by the bravery and resolution of the latter....
. He joined his father exile at the Macedon
Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
ian court in the years 353
353 BC

Events...
–343 BC. He returned in Persia when his father made peace with the king Artaxerxes III
Artaxerxes III of Persia

Artaxerxes III of Persia , was the List of kings of Persia and the eleventh Emperor of the Achaemenid Empire and the first Pharaoh of the History of Achaemenid Egypt#The second Egyptian satrapy of Egypt....
; Pharnabazus became brother-in-law of Memnon
Memnon of Rhodes

Memnon of Rhodes was the commander of the Greece mercenaries working for the Persian Empire king Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedon invaded Persia in 334 BC and won the Battle of the Granicus River....
, under whose guidance he gained military experience. When Memnon died in 333 BC he assumed the command of the Persian fleet with Autophradates
Autophradates

Autophradates was a Persians who distinguished himself as a general in the reign of Artaxerxes III of Persia and Darius III of Persia. In the reign of the former he made Artabazus, the revolted satrap of Lydia and Ionia, his prisoner, but afterwards set him free....
. They succeeded in reducing Mytilene
Mytilene

Mytilene is the Capital city of Lesbos Island, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, and capital of Lesbos Prefecture and the Northern Aegean region....
, Tenedos
Tenedos

Tenedos, officially referred to as Bozcaada in Turkey is a small island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Bozcaada Districts of Turkey of ?anakkale Province Provinces of Turkey in Turkey....
, and Chios
Chios

Chios is the fifth largest of the Greece list of islands of Greece, situated in the Aegean Sea seven kilometres off the Turkey coast. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages....
, and, having dispatched some ships to Cos
Kos

Kos or Cos is a Greece island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of G?kova. It measures 40 km by 8 km, and is only 4 km from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria....
 and Halicarnassus
Halicarnassus

Halicarnassus was an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Anatolia , on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf . It was the site of the Siege of Halicarnassus, between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire....
, they sailed with 100 of their fastest vessels to Siphnus
Sifnos

Sifnos is an island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades island group in Greece. The main town on the island is known as Apollonia located near the center of the island....
. Here they were visited by Agis III
Agis III

Agis III , son of Archidamus III, was the 20th Eurypontid king of Sparta. He succeeded his father in 338 BC, on the very day of the battle of Chaeronea....
, king of Sparta
Sparta

Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the Eurotas River in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From circa 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars....
, who came to ask for money and troops to support the anti-Macedon
Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
ian party in the Peloponnese
Peloponnese

The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula and Regions of Greece in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth....
. But just at this crisis intelligence arrived of Alexander
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
's victory at Issus
Battle of Issus

The Battle of Issus occurred in southern Anatolia, in November 333 BC. The invading troops led by the young Alexander the Great of Macedonia, outnumbered more than 2:1, defeated the army personally led by Darius III of Persia of Achaemenid Empire Persian Empire in the second great battle for primacy in Asia....
 (333 BC), and Phar­nabazus, fearing that the effect of it might be the revolt of Chios, sailed thither with 12 ships and 1500 mercenaries. He did not, however, prevent the islanders from putting down the Persian
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
 government, and he was himself taken prisoner; but he escaped, and took refuge in Cos.

In 324 BC, Artonis, the sister of Pharnabazus, was given in marriage to Eumenes by Alexander the Great; and in 321 BC we find Pharnabazus commanding a squadron of cavalry for Eumenes
Eumenes

Eumenes of Cardia was a ancient Greece general and scholar. He participated in the wars of the Diadochi as a supporter of the Macedonian Argead dynasty royal house....
, in the battle in which he defeated Craterus
Craterus

For other uses , see Craterus Craterus was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great and one of the Diadochi.He was the son of a Macedonian nobleman named Alexander from Orestis and brother of admiral Amphoterus....
 and Neoptolemus
Neoptolemus (general)

Neoptolemus was a Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great. As we are told by Arrian that he belonged to the race of the Aeacidae, he was probably related to the family of the kings of Epirus ....
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