Tissapherne
Tissapherne († 395), statesman and Persian general.
Satrap in 413 of Lydie and Decay, it fears the power of Sparte and on the councils of Alcibiade in vain tries to dissuade Darius II to support Sparte against Athens.
It enters in conflict with Cyrus the Young person (become, by the will of his/her mother Parysatis, satrap of Lydie, Phrygie and Cappadoce in 407) for the possession of the Greek cities of Ionie. It seizes Milet, which contributed partly to the revolt of Cyrus the Young person against his brother Artaxerxès II.
Tissapherne takes a decisive share with the battle of Counaxa in 401 where Cyrus the Young person is killed. Negotiations begin then between Tissapherne and the Greek mercenaries of Cyrus. Tissapherne is committed carrying out them towards the Euxine Sea but made assassinate their chief Cléarque at the time of a banquet. It is after this event which Xénophon directs the retirement of these mercenaries that it will describe in the Anabase .
Tissapherne marries one of the girls of Artaxerxès II and attacks then the towns of Ionie. It enters in conflict with Sparte and is overcome, on the edges of the Pactole in 395 by Agésilas II.
It is the pretext which waited the Parysatis queen-mother to avenge her preferred son. She shows Tissapherne of treason and he is carried out with Colosses, in Phrygie, 395.
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