Megabyzus (Old Persian Baghabuxša): Persian nobleman, one of the seven conspirators who killed the Magian usurper Gaumâta and helped Darius I the Great become king (September 522 BCE).
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Megabyzus (Old Persian Baghabuxša) (c.516-c.440): Persian nobleman, most important Persian commander during the first half of the fifth century BCE.
Achaemenid…
Oroetus: Persian satrap of Lydia, appointed by king Cyrus the Great, responsible for the death of Polycrates of Samos, killed by order of king Darius I the Great.
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Orontes II (Greek: ᾽Ορόντης, ᾽Ορόντας, or ᾽Αροάνδης): satrap of Armenia (c.330 - c.315 BCE).
Achaemenid rhyton from the palace at Erebuni
Although Orontes II is not…
Peithon (c.355-c.314): Macedoniann officer, bodyguard of Alexander the Great, satrap of Media, one of the Diadochi.Peithon was the son of Crateuas, a nobleman from Eordia in western Macedonia. He took part in the campaign of Alexander the Great, and is…
Peithon (d.312): Macedonian officer, appointed as satrap of southern India by Alexander the Great, served after the king's death under Antigonus Monophthalmus.Peithon was the son of a Macedonian nobleman named Agenor and served as an officer in the army of…
Peucestas: Macedonian officer in the army of Alexander the Great, satrap of Persis.Peucestas was born in the Macedonian town Mieza (modern Naousa) as the son of an otherwise unknown Alexander. The stages of his early career are unknown to us and…
Pharnabazus (second quarter fifth century BCE): Persian nobleman, after 455 (?) satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia.
Achaemenid nobleman, late sixth/early fifth century…
Pharnaces II (Elamite Parnaka): satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia (c.430-c.422).
Achaemenid nobleman, late sixth/early fifth century BCE.
Pharnaces II was the son of…
Pharnacids: Persian satrapal dynasty, ruling in Hellespontine Phrygia.The Pharnacids decended from an Achaemenid nobleman named Pharnaces, who was mayor of the palace of the Persian king Darius I the Great. In 477, Pharnaces' son Artabazus was appointed satrap of Hellespontine…