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Biography, reports and essays on Aesop can be found at his birthplace ancient Samos. There is also the suggestion that he was native of Phrygia or Sardis.
Ariobarzanes (Old Persian: *Ariyabrdna): Persian nobleman, between 387 and
363/362 satrap op Hellespontine Phrygia. Ariobarzanes was the son of a Persian
nobleman named Pharnabazus, who was satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, i.e., the
northwest of what is now Turkey.
The family belonged to the highest Persian elite: its founder was
another Pharnaces, who had in the late sixth century been mayor of the palace
of his cousin, king Darius the Great. The descendants of this Pharnaces remained
closely related to the great king: for example, Ariobarzanes' father was married
to a daughter of king Artaxerxes II Mnemon, Apama. (She was not Pharnabazus' first
wife and not Ariobarzanes' mother.)
In 407, Ariobarzanes served as envoy. He had to bring back several
Athenian ambassadors, who had been staying at the satrapal court of his father
at Dascylium, to the coast,
from where they could return to Athens. It seems that in these days, Ariobarzanes
also became friends with Antalcidas, a Spartan nobleman.
His father Pharnabazus played an important role during the so-called
Corinthian war between Sparta and the other Greek towns (395-387). He supported
Sparta, which had to pay for the Persian help: it had to sacrifice the Greek cities
in Asia, which became subjects of the great king. Pharnabazus was rewarded with
another, more important office, and Ariobarzanes succeeded him (387).
The new satrap had good connections with Athens
and Sparta, and when he decided
to revolt -for unknown reasons- against king Artaxerxes II Mnemon in his twentieth
year in office, he received support from both Greek towns. For example, the Spartan
king Agesilaus came to Asia with a mercenary force. Several other satraps sided
with Ariobarzanes: Maussolus of Caria
(briefly), Orontes of Armenia,
Autophradates of Lydia and Datames of Cappadocia.
The rebel satraps also received support from the pharaoh of Egypt,
Teos. In return for the support from Athens, Ariobarzanes presented the Greek
city with Sestos, a town
at the entrance of the Hellespont that had once been Athenian.
In return, the Athenians made him citizen of their city. In the winter
of 363/362, the rebels were defeated; Ariobarzanes was betrayed by his son Mithradates
and crucified. He was succeeded by his half-brother Artabazus.
Jona Lendering, ed.
This text is cited July 2003 from the Livius Ancient History Website URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
Arsites, the satrap of the Hellespontine Phrygia when Alexander the Great invaded Asia. After the defeat of the Persians at the Granicus, Arsites retreated to Phrygia, where he put an end to his own life, because he had advised the satraps to fight with Alexander, instead of retiring before him and laying waste the country, as Memnon had recommended. (Arrian, Anab. i. 13, 17; Paus. i. 29.7)
Hilarius, (Hilarios), a Phrygian, an interpreter of oracles, implicated in the proceedings of Theodorus, who attempted to discover by magic who should succeed the emperor Valens. He was executed in the course of the judicial proceedings which followed. (Amm. Marc. xxix. 1; Zosim. iv. 15; Tillemont, Hist. des Emp. vol. v.)
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