Datames
Datames | |
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Satrap of Cappadocia | |
In office 380 BC – 362 BC | |
Preceded by | Ariaramnes |
Succeeded by | Ariamnes |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 407 BC |
Died | c. 362 BC |
Relations | Camisares (father) Scythissa (mother) Ariamnes (son) Sysinas (son) |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Achaemenid Empire Satrapy of Cappadocia |
Battles/wars | Cadusian Campaign Great Satraps' Revolt |
Datames (
Name
"Datames" is the
Background
Datames was born in c. 407 BC.
Revolt against Artaxerxes II
He was in consequence entrusted by the Persian king with the chief command of a force designed for the recovery of
Evaluation
Datames appears to have obtained the highest reputation in his day for courage and ability in war, which caused his fame to extend even among the Greeks, though he did not come into personal collision with them. Cornelius Nepos (to whose biographical sketch we owe the only connected narrative of his life) calls him the bravest and most able of all non-Greek and non-Roman generals, except Hamilcar and Hannibal; but there is much confusion in the accounts transmitted to us, and it is difficult to assign the anecdotes of him recorded by Polyaenus to their proper place in his history. The chronology of the events related by Nepos is also very obscure; but according to that author and Diodorus it would appear that Datames must have died before Artaxerxes, probably 362 BC.
He was succeeded by his son Ariamnes I ( Ancient Greek: Ἀριάμνης, Ariámnēs) who ruled 362 BC–330 BC as satrap of Cappadocia under Persian suzerainty.
References
- ^ a b Bing 1998, p. 41.
- ^ Sekunda 1988, p. 35; Schmitt 1994, pp. 115–117
- ^ Sekunda 1988, p. 35.
- ^ Sekunda 1988, p. 38; Schmitt 1994, pp. 115–117
- ^ Bing 1998, p. 44; Sekunda 1988, p. 36
- ^ Bing 1998, p. 44; Sekunda 1988, p. 36
- ^ Sekunda 1988, p. 37.
- ^ Nepos, Datames, x; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xv. 91; Polyaenus, Stratagemata, vii. 21, vii. 29
Sources
- Bing, J. Daniel (1998). "Datames and Mazaeus: The Iconography of Revolt and Restoration in Cilicia". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 47 (1): 41–76. JSTOR 4436493. (registration required)
- ISBN 9781575061207.
- ISBN 978-1-56859-020-2.
- JSTOR 4299799. (registration required)