Phrataphernes

Phrataphernes (Greek: Φραταφέρνης ) was among the last Achaemenid Persian king Darius III. a satrap of Parthia and Hyrcania in the northeast of present-day Iran. After the fall of Darius by Alexander the Great, he got back his old position and was one of his most loyal followers.

Life

Phrataphernes Darius supported with troops in the war against Alexander the Great and fought in the Battle of Gaugamela, where he commanded the Parthians, and Hyrkaner Topeirer. But he also threw himself after the death of Darius the conquerors and was confirmed by Alexander as satrap. 330 BC, he supported Alexander, when he threw down the rebellion of the Satibarzanes in the neighboring province Areia. In the winter of 327/328 he handed ( the successor and rival of Satibarzanes ) and other insurgents in Alexander Nautaka of Arsaces, and receives the command to capture the rebellious satrap Autophradates. 328 BC he gave to Alexander in Balkh, the capital of Bactria, on. As a result, where the marten and Tapurer against Alexander, who Phrataphernes company responsible for the suppression of the rebellion, a task which he carried out with success. Thereupon Phrataphernes involved in Alexander's train to India, but he returned apparently relatively soon after Parthia back, as he sat from here food and supplies to Gedrosia in march, where Alexander undertook an arduous desert march. Then Phrataphernes later reappears after Alexander's death in 323 BC in the sources; also its successors, the Diadochi, confirmed him in the imperial order of Babylon in his position as satrap. He apparently died before 320 BC, since it has been awarded this year to the Conference of Triparadeisos, Parthia Philippos, until then ruler in Sogdiana.