Pharnabazos I [60664]

  General Notes:

http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps31/ps31_397.htm

Pharnabazus was the son of a Persian nobleman named Artabazus , who was satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, i.e., the northwest of what is now Turkey. The family of Artabazus belonged to the highest Persian elite: his father Pharnaces had been mayor of the palace of his cousin, king Darius the Great.

To us, Artabazus' son Pharnabazus is just a name. We do not even know when he became satrap, although 455 is likely. About his acts, we are ignorant. He had already been succeeded by his son Pharnaces in the winter of 430/429.

So little is known about Pharnabazus, that it has been assumed that he was never satrap. His father was still serving the king in 450/449 and several scholars have assumed that Pharnabazus served Artabazus, and never became satrap. In this reconstructrion, Pharnabazus' father was directly succeeded by Pharnaces.

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Pharnabazos married.