Tithraustes

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Tithraustes († after 383 BC) was a court minister and general of the Persian empire of the Achaemenids in the 4th century BC .

Tithraustes was the commander ( Chiliarch ) of the "apple bearer", the highest minister of the great king Artaxerxes II. Mnemon during the Spartan-Persian war . After the satrap of Phrygia, Pharnabazos , had accused the satrap of Lydia , Tissaphernes , of treason through the mediating Konon , Tithraustes was defeated in 395 BC. Chr. Charged with the removal of the Tissaphernes. He had him beheaded in Colossai to send his head to the great king. Allegedly he also acted on behalf of the Queen Mother Parysatis , who wanted to avenge the death of her son, Prince Cyrus . Tithraustes then took over the province of Lydia with the capital Sardis . He bought himself free from the threat posed by the Spartans present under their king Agesilaus II and instead encouraged them to attack the province of Pharnabazos, whom Tithraustes was also not well disposed towards.

But after Pharnabazos in the sea ​​battle of Knidos 394 BC. When the Spartan fleet had sunk, Tithraustes' position became untenable, whereupon he was ordered back to the court by the great king. He was replaced by Tiribazos in Sardis .

For the last time, Tithraustes is mentioned as one of the generals (including Pharnabazos) of an invading army, whose attack on Egypt was between 385 and 383 BC. BC failed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Nepos , Konon 3.3.
  2. ↑ Xenophon , Hellenika 3.4.25; Diodorus 14.80.6-8; Plutarch , Artaxerxes 23.1.
  3. ↑ Hellenika Oxyrhynchia , FGrH 66, F 14, 1ff .; Isocrates , Panegyrikos 4, 140f .; Cornelius Nepos, Datames 3, 5.
personal data
SURNAME Tithraustes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Court Marshal of Artaxerxes II, Satrap of Lydia
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 383 BC Chr.