Atizyes

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Atizyes († 333 BC ) was a Persian governor in the 4th century BC.

Atizyes officiated under the Achaemenids in 334 BC. BC as satrap of Phrygia (now Anatolia) when Alexander the Great began his campaign in Asia. He was not a member of the satrap coalition that had formed against the invasion, and probably did not take part in the Battle of Granikos . He strengthened the garrison in his capital Kelainai with 1,000 Carian and 100 Greek mercenaries and moved to Syria himself to join the army of the Great King Dareios III. to connect. Atizyes fell in 333 BC. In the battle of Issus when trying to jointly with Sabakes and other distinguished Persians the great king Dareios III. to cover when Alexander the Great fought his way to the Persian king's chariot in the course of the battle with his riders.

Phrygia fell to Alexander, who appointed General Antigonus Monophthalmos as his satrap.

literature

  • Waldemar Heckel: Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire , 2006
  • Siegfried Lauffer : Alexander der Große , dtv, 3rd edition 1993, ISBN 3-423-04298-2 , p. 78

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arrian Anabasis 1.25.3
  2. ↑ Diodorus (17.21.3) nevertheless incorrectly noted his death in this battle.
  3. ↑ Arrian Anabasis 1.29.1; Curtius Rufus 3.1.6-8.
  4. ↑ Arrian Anabasis 2.11.8; Curtius Rufus 3.11.10; Diodorus 17.34.5
personal data
SURNAME Atizyes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Satrap of Phrygia
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 333 BC Chr.