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Tissaphernes claimed to have killed the rebel himself, with the result that Parysatis later took cruel vengeance upon the slayer of her favorite son.
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Tissaphernes and claimed
On the downfall of Athens, Cyrus and Tissaphernes both claimed jurisdiction over the Ionian cities, most of which acknowledged Cyrus as their ruler ; but Tissaphernes took possession of Miletus, where he was attacked by Cyrus, who gathered an army under this pretence with the purpose of using it against his brother Artaxerxes II.
Tissaphernes and have
* The Persian satrap Tissaphernes ' enemy Parysatis, mother of Cyrus, succeeds in persuading Persian King Artaxerxes II to have him executed at Colossae, Phrygia ( now Turkey ).
Tissaphernes and killed
Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.
Tissaphernes and himself
As a result the left wing of the Persians under Tissaphernes was free to engage the rest of Cyrus ' forces ; Cyrus in the centre threw himself upon Artaxerxes, but was slain in a desperate struggle.
Tissaphernes and with
On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.
Tithraustes was thereupon sent to replace Tissaphernes, who paid with his life for his continued failure.
As a result of that event, Darius II gave orders to his satraps in Asia Minor, Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus, to send in the overdue tribute of the Greek towns and to begin a war with Athens.
* Cyrus the Younger uses a quarrel with Tissaphernes over the Ionian cities as a pretext for gathering a large army and also pretends to prepare an expedition to Pisidia, in the Taurus Mountains.
Agesilaus agrees to a three months ' truce with the Persians under Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria.
The aim of this policy was to win away Persian support from the Spartans, as it was believed that Alcibiades had great influence with Tissaphernes.
Her relationship with Persia deteriorated, and she began raiding the satrapies of Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes in modern Turkey.
First Conon moved up to Caria with a small portion of the fleet, where he was for a time blockaded but then rescued by Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes.
* The Spartans sign a treaty of mutual help with the Persian satrap of Lower Asia, Tissaphernes.
Alcibiades advises Tissaphernes to withdraw his support from Sparta while conspiring with the oligarchic party in Athens, as Sparta's allied cities break away in a series of revolts.
* Tissaphernes, the Persian satrap of Lydia and Caria, forms an alliance with Sparta.
Cyrus managed to gather a large army by beginning a quarrel with Tissaphernes, satrap of Caria, about the Ionian towns ; he also pretended to prepare an expedition against the Pisidians, a mountainous tribe in the Taurus, which was never obedient to the Empire.
The king had only been warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes and gathered an army in haste ; Cyrus advanced into Babylonia, before he met with an enemy.
On Cyrus ’ s death Clearchus assumed the chief command and conducted the retreat, until, being treacherously seized with his fellow-generals by Tissaphernes, he was handed over to Artaxerxes and executed.
But Tissaphernes was unwilling to take action and tried to achieve his aim by astute and often perfidious negotiations ; Alcibiades persuaded him that Persia's best policy was to keep the balance between Athens and Sparta, and rivalry with his neighbour Pharnabazus of Hellespontic Phrygia still further lessened his energy.
Tissaphernes was left with a problem ; a large army of heavy troops, which he could not defeat by frontal assault.
Claiming that he had great influence with Tissaphernes, Alcibiades promised to return to Athens, bringing Persian support with him, if the democracy that had exiled him were replaced with an oligarchy.
Alcibiades, however, did not succeed in persuading the satrap to ally with the Athenians, and, to hide this fact, demanded ( claiming to be speaking for Tissaphernes ) greater and greater concessions of them until they finally refused to comply.
He first descended upon the Phrygians and their leader Tissaphernes who had broken a “ solemn league ” with the Greeks and had earned the “ downright contempt of the gods .” He followed Tissaphernes into Persian territory The Persian king, fearing further plundering of his country ordered Tissaphernes beheaded.
Tissaphernes and result
As a result, he flees to the court of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.
Tissaphernes and Parysatis
His wife, Parysatis, persuades him to appoint his younger son, Cyrus, as satrap ( governor ) of Lydia, Phrygia, and Cappadocia and commander in chief of the Achaemenian forces in Asia Minor in place of Tissaphernes.
Parysatis cannot forgive Tissaphernes for the rough treatment he has handed out to her favourite son, the late Cyrus.
After the accession of Artaxerxes II in 404 BC, Tissaphernes ( Ciθrafarna ) denounced the plans of Cyrus against his brother but, by the intercession of Parysatis, was pardoned and sent back to his satrapy.
Tissaphernes, who once again had recourse to subtle diplomacy, was beaten by Agesilaus II on the Pactolus near Sardis in 395 BC ; and at last the king yielded to the representations of Pharnabazus, strongly supported by the chiliarch ( vizier ) Tithraustes and by the queen-mother Parysatis, who hated Tissaphernes as the principal cause of the death of her favourite son Cyrus.
Tissaphernes and later
Several months later, the new Spartan navarch Mindarus, deciding that the promises of support made by Pharnabazus, the Persian satrap of Anatolia, were more promising than those of Tissaphernes in Ionia, slipped his entire fleet past the Athenians.
She later had Tissaphernes assassinated.
Tissaphernes and took
The king was warned by Tissaphernes, who took part in the battle of Cunaxa, and afterwards tried to destroy the Greek mercenaries of Cyrus by treachery.
Tissaphernes and her
When Cyrus was defeated in the Battle of Cunaxa she blamed the satrap Tissaphernes for the death of her son.
Tissaphernes and son
* Darius II's younger son, Cyrus, is accused by Tissaphernes, the satrap of Caria, of plotting his brother Artaxerxes II's murder.
Mausolus was the eldest son of Hecatomnus, a native Carian who became the satrap of Caria when Tissaphernes died, around 395 BC.
Tissaphernes and .
In 396 BC, during the Persian Wars, the satrap Tissaphernes was lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus the Younger.
Under the pretext of fighting Tissaphernes, the Persian satrap of Ionia, Cyrus assembled a massive army composed of native Persian soldiers, but also a large number of Greeks.
* Tissaphernes ' influence is limited to the satrapy of Caria.
He advanced unopposed into Babylonia ; but Artaxerxes II, warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes, hastily gathered an army.
He was an Athenian who became their leader when Tissaphernes, Persian satrap of Caria and Lydia, had Clearchus of Sparta and the other senior Greek captains captured and executed by Artaxerxes.
He advances unopposed into Babylonia ; but Artaxerxes, warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes, hastily gathers an army.
They fight their way north through hostile Persians, Armenians, and Kurds to Trapezus on the coast of the Black Sea under Xenophon, who becomes their leader when the Persian satrap, Tissaphernes has Clearchus of Sparta and the other senior Greek captains captured and executed by Artaxerxes.
* Artaxerxes II King of Persia appoints Tissaphernes to take over all the districts in Asia Minor over which Artaxerxes II's brother Cyrus had been governor before his revolt.
* Agesilaus II, the King of Sparta, campaigns successfully in Asia Minor against the Persian satraps Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes and inflicts a major defeat on Tissaphernes at Sardis.
Negotiations conducted during that time prove fruitless, and on its termination, Agesilaus raids Phrygia, where he easily captures an immense amount of booty, since Tissaphernes has concentrated his troops in Caria.
* Tithraustes replaces Tissaphernes.
There he served as an adviser to the satrap Tissaphernes until his Athenian political allies brought about his recall.
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