Battle of Issus
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The Battle of Issus occurred in southern Anatolia, on 5 November 333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, led by Darius III. It was the second major bat
Alexander battling Darius at the Battle of Issus (Naples National Archaeological Museum)
The Battle of Issus by Jan Brueghel the Elder in the Louvre
The battlefield at Issus
Sabakes, the Achaemenid satrap of Egypt, died at the Battle of Issus defending Darius III.
Pharnabazus III
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Pharnabazus III was a Persian satrap who fought against Alexander the Great. His father was Artabazos II, and his mother a Greek from Rhodes.
In 321 BC, Pharnabazus commanded a squadron of cavalry for Eumenes, when the latter defeated Neoptolemus in the Wars of the Diadochi. 1878 engraving.
Persian cavalry from Asia Minor under Pharnabazus composed the superior cavalry of Eumenes in the Battle of the Hellespont (321 BC). Altıkulaç Sarcophagus
Family tree after Pharnabazus II.
Darius In Parse