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Čiçafarnah (čiça + farnah) "with shining splendor": čiça is from the Proto-Indo-European adjective (s)koitrós 'bright'; farnah is equivalent to Avestan xvarənah 'fortune', 'glory', which appears as 'luminous'. čiθra means nature, specifically the animate nature.. Čiça-is the Old Persian form of the Old Iranian term Čiθra-, which is reflected in the Median form of the name, *Čiθrafarnah-(Ancient Greek: Τετραφέρνης).
Tissaphernes was a Persian satrap (governor) who played a leading part in Persia’s struggle to reconquer the Ionian Greek cities of Asia Minor that had been held by Athens since 449. In 413 Tissaphernes, who was then satrap of Lydia and Caria, formed an alliance with Sparta, and by the next year he
Early Career The citadel of Sardes, seen from the west. Tissaphernes belonged to one of the most important Persian families. The name of his father has not been recorded, but his grandfather was the Hydarnes who had commanded the elite corps of the Immortals during Xerxes' ill-fated campaign against Greece. Hydarnes' father, who was also called Hydarnes, had been one of the seven conspirators who killed the usurper Gaumâta and helped Darius the Great become king (522). Tissaphernes belonged ...
ABHANDL UNGEN DECLINE AND FALL OF TISSAPHERNES When Tissaphernes returned to the Aegean coastal area from Persia in 400 B. C., his prestige stood higher than at any other stage of his career.
Tissaphernes (tĬs´əfûr´nēz), d. 395 BC, Persian satrap of coastal Asia Minor (c.413–395 BC). 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 ().Tissaphernes and ...
Feb 11, 2009 · Tissaphernes in Thucydides - Volume 35 Issue 1. 6 All the evidence relating to his career, especially his close links with the Persian court, suggests that he belonged to the limited circle of aristocrats who were largely responsible for the administration of the empire. The Lycian text of the Xanthus stele, Tituli Asiae Minoris (ed. Kalinka, E., Vienna, 1901) i. 44c 11 – 12 Google Scholar, names his father as Hydarnes.If this Hydarnes is the commander of the Immortals in the invasion of ...
Tissaphernes tĭsˌəfûrˈnēz [key], 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
Jan 8, 2016 · Tissaphernes (d.395 BC) was the Persian satrap of Lydia and Caria in Asia Minor and played part in the defeat of Athens in the Great Peloponnesian War and the defeat of the revolt of Cyrus the Younger in 401, but was executed for his failures against the Spartans in 395.
Tissaphernes （ Τισσαφέρνης), a famous Persian, who in B. C. 414 was commissioned by Dareius II.(Nothus) to quell the rebellion of Pissuthnes, satrap of Lower Asia, and to succeed him in his government. Tissaphernes and his colleagues bribed the Greek mercenaries of Pissuthnes to desert his cause, and then entrapped him into a surrender by a promise, which Dareius broke, that his life should be spared.
Mar 7, 2016 · "Tissaphernes" published on by Oxford University Press.
