Pharnacid dynasty
Pharnacid | |
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Parent house | Achaemenid dynasty |
Country | Hellespontine Phrygia (satrapy) |
Founder | Artabazos I of Phrygia |
Current head | Extinct |
Final ruler | Pharnabazus III |
Titles |
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Estate(s) | Dascylium |
Cadet branches | Mithridatic dynasty |
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The Pharnacid dynasty was a
Pharnabazus III
.
Before the Pharnacids,
Darius I, Mitrobates was succeeded by Oebares II (c.493), son of Megabazus, before Artabazus became satrap circa 479 BCE and started the Pharnacid dynasty, which would rule Hellespontine Phrygia until the conquests of Alexander the Great (338 BCE).[2]
The residence of the Pharnacid Dynasty was at Dascylium (near modern-day Ergili, Turkey).
After the conquests of
Ptolemy I, while Barsine may have married Alexander the Great and given him a son, Heracles of Macedon
.
The Pharnacids
- Pharnaces I (Elamite: Parnaka; c. 550–497 BC)
- Artabazus I (fl. 480–455 BCE)
- Pharnabazus I (fl. 455–430 BCE)
- Pharnaces II of Phrygia (fl. 430–422 BCE)
- Pharnabazus II (fl. 422–387 BCE)
- Ariobarzanes of Phrygia (Persian: Ariyabrdhna; (fl. 407–362 BCE)
- Artabazus II(fl. 389–329 BCE)
- Pharnabazus III (fl. 370–320 BCE)
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-753278-2.
- ISBN 978-1-57506-120-7.
- Heidemarie Koch, Es kündet Dareios der König. Vom Leben im persischen Großreich. 1992, Mainz.
External links
- "Pharnaces (1)" at Livius.org
- Weiskopf, Michael (1994). "DASCYLIUM". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VII, Fasc. 1. pp. 85–90.