Portrait of Tissaphernes (445 BC–395 BC), from his coinage. Most of his coins are inscribed ΤΙΣΣΑ ("TISSA") in Greek under his portrait, permitting identification.
Satrap of Lydia
In office 415 BC – 408 BC
Preceded by
Pissuthnes
Succeeded by
Cyrus the Younger
In office 400 BC – 395 BC
Preceded by
Cyrus the Younger
Succeeded by
Tiribazus
Personal details
Born
445 BC
Died
395 BC (aged 50) Colossae, Phrygia, Persian Empire (modern-day Honaz, Denizli, Turkey)
Military service
Allegiance
Achaemenid Empire
Battles/wars
Battle of Cunaxa
Tissaphernes (Old Persian: *Ciçafarnāʰ; Greek: Τισσαφέρνης; Lycian: 𐊋𐊆𐊈𐊈𐊀𐊓𐊕𐊑𐊏𐊀Kizzaprñna, 𐊈𐊆𐊖𐊀𐊓𐊕𐊑𐊏𐊀Zisaprñna;[1] 445 – 395 BC) was a Persian commander and statesman, Satrap of Lydia and Ionia. His life is mostly known from the works of Thucydides and Xenophon. According to Ctesias, he was the son of Hidarnes III and therefore, the great grandson of Hydarnes, one of the six conspirators who had supported the rise of Darius the Great.
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satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia, and Cappadocia. He also succeeded Tissaphernes as the commander-in-chief of the Persian force stationed at Castolus...
ordered to kill Alcibiades, who flees from Sparta to Tissaphernes. 8.45 Alcibiades advises Tissaphernes to let Athens and Sparta wear each other out. 8.46...
with Tissaphernes (one of the Persian generals at the battle). Eventually Socrates and several other Greek generals were betrayed by Tissaphernes and Ariaeus...
of Tissaphernes, gave support first to Athens, then to Sparta, but in 407 BC, Darius' son Cyrus the Younger was appointed to replace Tissaphernes and...
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Athens bringing the support of Tissaphernes with him. The Athenians did not know that Alcibiades' relationship with Tissaphernes was precarious, for each man...
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Empire Satraps and Dynasts in Asia Minor developed the usage of portraiture from c. 420 BC. Portrait of the Satrap of Lydia, Tissaphernes (c. 445–395 BC)....
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