Pharnakes II (Phrygia)

Pharnakes ( Elamite : Parnaka , Old Persian : Farnaka , Greek Φαρνάκης ..; † by 422 BC), son of Pharnabazos from the family of Pharnakiden was a governor ( Satrap ) in the Persian realm of Achaemenidae .

Pharnakes was the governor of the province of Phrygia with the Daskyleion residence , in which he lived before 430 BC. Followed his father. Towards the end of summer 430 BC BC, the second year of the Peloponnesian War , an embassy consisting of Aristheus of Corinth , the Lacedaemonians Anaristos, Nikolaos, Stratodemos, the Tegeate Timagoras and the Argive Polos was supposed to travel to Asia to the court of Susa in order to conclude an alliance for Sparta with the Persian great king Artaxerxes I to negotiate. The task was to convince Artaxerxes to take part in the Peloponnesian War on the side of Sparta. First, however, the ambassadors went to Sitalkes in order to draw this in their interest as well, so that Potidaia would be freed from the Attic siege army and they could go safely over the Hellespont to Pharnakes, who was to accompany them to the king, even under his protection . But after the betrayal of the Abderite Nymphodorus, Sitalkes captured the ambassadors at Bisantha on the Hellespont and sent them to Attica , where they were soon executed. At that time Pharnakes was unable to do anything for the Spartans. The last time he is for the winter of 423/422 BC. When he gave the homeless people of Delos , who had been expelled from Athens from their island, a new home in the town of Adramyttion in Asia Minor .

Pharnakes had two sons. The older one was Pharnabazos , who gave him no later than 413 BC. Followed as governor in Daskyleion. The younger was Magaios, who, together with his uncle (Pharnakas' brother) Susamithres, is considered to be the murderer of Alcibiades .

Aristotle reported that a Pharnakes, father of Pharnabazos, brought nine mules from Syria into Phrygia.

literature

Julius Miller: Pharnakes 3). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIX, 2, Stuttgart 1938, column 1853.

Web links

Jonah Lendering: Pharnaces (2) . In: Livius.org (English)

Remarks

^ Thucydides , Peloponnesian War 2, 67.
↑ Herodotus , Historien 7, 137; slightly different Thucydides ( Peloponnesian War 2, 67), according to whom Sitalkes' son Sadokos had the ambassadors captured and handed over to the Athenians, who then executed them.
↑ Thucydides 5, 1; the Delians were able to return to their homeland the following year with Athens' permission (Thucydides 5, 32).
↑ Cornelius Nepos , Alcibiades 10.
^ Aristotle , Historia animalium 6, 36.

personal data
SURNAME	Pharnakes II
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Parnaka; Farnaka; Φαρνάκης
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Satrap of Phrygia
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 422 BC Chr.

[1] Thucydides , Peloponnesian War 2, 67.

[2] Herodotus , Historien 7, 137; slightly different Thucydides ( Peloponnesian War 2, 67), according to whom Sitalkes' son Sadokos had the ambassadors captured and handed over to the Athenians, who then executed them.

[3] Thucydides 5, 1; the Delians were able to return to their homeland the following year with Athens' permission (Thucydides 5, 32).

[4] Cornelius Nepos , Alcibiades 10.

[5] Aristotle , Historia animalium 6, 36.