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Amorges († 412 BC ), son of Pissouthnes , was a mercenary leader during the Peloponnesian War , which continued his father's revolt against the Persian great king in Caria .

After Pissouthnes became the satrap of Lydia and Ionia around 420 BC. Had rebelled against the great king Dareios II , he was 415 BC. Was captured by the new governor Tissaphernes and then executed in Susa . His bastard son Amorges, however, continued the revolt in Caria and was able to rely on the mercenaries that his father had recruited in Greece. He occupied the city of Iasos between Miletus and Halicarnassus , where he could count on support from the Athens fleet , so that a siege on land was pointless for the Persians.

The ongoing revolt in Caria was one of the reasons for the conclusion of an alliance treaty between Sparta and the Persian Empire, the Tissaphernes 412 BC. In Miletus and in which the Spartans committed themselves to help against rebellious cities in the territory of the great king. When the Athenian fleet withdrew to the safe Samos after the battle of Miletus , Tissaphernes took the opportunity and drove with the newly established Peloponnesian fleet under the generals Therimenes and Hermocrates against Iasos. Since no one there would have thought it possible that the approaching fleet could not be Attic, the defenders let the ships into the port unhindered. The old and extremely wealthy city was conquered and sacked. The mercenaries surrendered and were later included in the Peloponnesian army.

Amorges was captured alive and delivered to Tissaphernes. He probably had him brought to the Great King in Susa, who had no reason to spare him the fate of his father .

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SURNAME Cupid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rebel in Caria
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 412 BC Chr.