{"slug": "tissaphernes", "label": "Tissaphernes", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissaphernes", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355727", "qid": "Q355727", "description": "Persian Satrap of Lydia and Ionia (445–395 BC)", "entries": 9, "years": 7, "span": [-412, -394], "span_label": ["413 BCE", "395 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "cyrus-the-younger", "label": "Cyrus the Younger", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "pharnabazus-5th-century-bc", "label": "Pharnabazus (5th century BC)", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "artaxerxes-ii", "label": "Artaxerxes II", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "caria", "label": "Caria", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ionia", "label": "Ionia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alcibiades", "label": "Alcibiades", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "agis-ii", "label": "Agis II", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": -412, "year_label": "413 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Tissaphernes, the Persian satrap of Lydia and Caria, forms an alliance with Sparta. The Spartans, with strategic advice from Alcibiades and limited assistance from the Persians under Pharnabazus, advance almost to the gates of Athens. King Agis II leads the Spartan force that occupies Decelea in Attica.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353493943#Greece", "title": "413 BC", "revid": 1353493943, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -411, "year_label": "412 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alcibiades helps stir up revolts amongst Athens' allies in Ionia, on the west coast of Asia Minor. However, Alcibiades loses the confidence of the Spartans and antagonises their king Agis II. As a result, he flees to the court of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes. Alcibiades advises Tissaphernes to withdraw his support from Sparta while conspiring with the oligarchic party in Athens, as Sparta's allied cities break away in a series of revolts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1173807294#Greece", "title": "412 BC", "revid": 1173807294, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -411, "year_label": "412 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Persians under Darius II see their opportunity to play off one Greek city-state against another and to recover control of the Greek cities of Asia Minor, which have been under Athenian control since 449 BC. The satraps of Asia Minor, Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus, are ordered to collect overdue tribute.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1173807294#Persian_Empire", "title": "412 BC", "revid": 1173807294, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -403, "year_label": "404 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Darius II's younger son, Cyrus, is accused by Tissaphernes, the satrap of Caria, of plotting his brother Artaxerxes II's murder. On the intercession of Artaxerxes II and Cyrus's mother, Parysatis, however, Cyrus is pardoned and sent back to his satrapy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369378724#Persian_Empire", "title": "404 BC", "revid": 1369378724, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -400, "year_label": "401 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cyrus the Younger uses a quarrel with Tissaphernes over the Ionian cities as a pretext for gathering a large army and also pretends to prepare an expedition to Pisidia, in the Taurus Mountains. Cyrus starts out with about 15,220 men, of whom 10,400 are Greek mercenaries. When he reaches the Euphrates River at Thapsacus, he announces that he is marching against Artaxerxes II. He advances unopposed into Babylonia; but Artaxerxes, warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes, hastily gathers an army. The two forces meet in the Battle of Cunaxa, north of Babylon, where Cyrus is slain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242237123#Persian_empire", "title": "401 BC", "revid": 1242237123, "section": "Events › By place › Persian empire"}}, {"year": -399, "year_label": "400 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Artaxerxes II, king of Persia, appoints Tissaphernes to take over all the districts in Asia Minor over which Artaxerxes II's brother Cyrus had been governor before his revolt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361270863#By_place", "title": "400 BC", "revid": 1361270863, "section": "Events › By place"}}, {"year": -399, "year_label": "400 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Thibron embarks his army at the Isthmus of Corinth and sails to Ephesus on the Ionian coast. Upon arrival, he recruits an additional 2,000 soldiers and starts his campaign against Tissaphernes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361270863#By_place", "title": "400 BC", "revid": 1361270863, "section": "Events › By place"}}, {"year": -395, "year_label": "396 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Agesilaus II, the King of Sparta, campaigns successfully in Asia Minor against the Persian satraps Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes and inflicts a major defeat on Tissaphernes at Sardis. Agesilaus agrees to a three months' truce with the Persians under Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria. Negotiations conducted during that time prove fruitless, and on its termination, Agesilaus raids Phrygia, where he easily captures an immense amount of booty, since Tissaphernes has concentrated his troops in Caria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306223289#Greece", "title": "396 BC", "revid": 1306223289, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -394, "year_label": "395 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Persian satrap Tissaphernes' enemy Parysatis, mother of Cyrus, succeeds in persuading Persian King Artaxerxes II to have him executed at Colossae, Phrygia (now Turkey). Parysatis cannot forgive Tissaphernes for the rough treatment he has handed out to her favourite son, the late Cyrus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370496371#Persian_Empire", "title": "395 BC", "revid": 1370496371, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}]}