Pharnaces II of Phrygia

Pharnakes ( Elamite: Parnaka, Old Persian: Farnaka, Greek Φαρνάκης; † after 422 BC ), son of Pharnabazos from the family of Pharnakiden, was a governor ( satrap ) in the Persian empire of the Achaemenids.

Pharnakes was the governor of the province of Phrygia with the residence Daskyleion, in which he succeeded his father BC before the year 430. In the summer of 430 BC, he was in negotiations for an alliance of the Great King Artaxerxes I of Sparta for the upcoming Peloponnesian War involved the unsuccessful proceeded, however. The last time Pharnakes is for the winter 423/422 BC called when he was the homeless people of Delos, which were expelled from Athens by his island, there was a new home in the town in Asia Minor Adramyttion.

Pharnakes had two sons. The elder was Pharnabazos who succeeded him in 413 BC at the latest as governor in Daskyleion. The younger was Magaios which, together with his uncle ( Pharnakas ' brother) Susamithres regarded as murderers of Alcibiades.

Aristotle knew to report that a Pharnakes, father of Pharnabazos, nine coming from Syria mules introduced in Phrygia.