In Greek mythology, Pharnace (Ancient Greek: Φαρνάκην) was a Hyrian princess as the daughter of King Megassares of Hyria. By King Sandocus of Celendreis...
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Cinyras’ parentage was attributed to the following: (1) Sandocus and Pharnace, (2) Amathousa, (3) Apollo or lastly, (4) Paphos. Paphia, a surname of...
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Pharnaces I (Greek: Φαρνάκης; lived 2nd century BC) was the fifth king of Pontus. Of Persian and Greek ancestry, he was the son of King Mithridates III...
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Sandocus (category Greek mythology stubs)
from Syria to Cilicia where he founded a city Celenderis. He then married Pharnace, daughter of King Megassares of Hyria, and had by her a son, Cinyras. The...
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Amathousa (category Women in Greek mythology)
the latter's parentage was attributed to the following: (1) Sandocus and Pharnace, (2) Eurymedon and the nymph Paphia, (3) Apollo, or lastly, (4) Paphos...
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Cinyras (category Kings in Greek mythology)
parents were Sandocus, son of Astynous (himself son of Phaethon), and Pharnace, daughter of King Megassares of Hyria. Cinyras' father, Sandocus was an...
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Nysa (section Greek Mythology)
(wife of Pharnaces I of Pontus), daughter of Laodice IV and Antiochus, wife of Pharnaces I of Pontus Nysa of Cappadocia, daughter of Pharnaces I of Pontus...
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Megassares (category Greek mythology stubs)
In Greek mythology, Megassares (Ancient Greek: Μεγασσάρου) was a King of Hyria and the father of Pharnace. The latter married King Sandocus of Celendreis...
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Julius Caesar to the Roman Senate to describe his battle against King Pharnaces II of Pontus near Zela in 47 BC. venia aetatis pardon my age the privilege...
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Asander (king) (section Revolt against Pharnaces II)
of his family and early life. He started his career as a general under Pharnaces II, the king of the Bosporus. According to some scholars, Asander took...
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of Greek Macedonian and Persian ancestry. He was the son of the King Pharnaces I and Queen Nysa, while his sister was Nysa of Cappadocia. His mother...
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Persian noble. His wife was the daughter of Darius III with the sister of Pharnaces, which made him the son-in-law of Darius. He was slain by the hand of...
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Anatolia Polemon was appointed to part of Cilicia, Darius, the son of Pharnaces II and grandson of Mithridates VI, to Pontus, and Amyntas to Pisidia....
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Apollo (redirect from Apollo (mythology))
Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth...
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Caesar departed from Egypt around April 47 BC, allegedly to confront Pharnaces II of Pontus, the son of Mithridates VI of Pontus, who was stirring up...
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"The Parthians and Chorasmians had for their commander Artabazus son of Pharnaces, the Sogdians Azanes son of Artaeus, the Gandarians and Dadicae Artyphius...
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learnt that during his time in Egypt, the king of what is now Crimea, Pharnaces, had attempted to seize what had been his father's kingdom, Pontus, across...
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See also List of Roman battles Sherman Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore p.201 Winter, Irene J., "After the Battle Is Over: The ‘Stele...
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Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology". p. 1218. Archived from the original on 2011-02-20. Retrieved 2010-10-07...
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In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 116. Chisholm, Hugh, ed...
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was of Greek Macedonian and Persian ancestry. She was the daughter of Pharnaces I and queen Nysa. Her brother was Mithridates who became Mithridates V...
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870. "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 270 (V. 3)". Archived from the original...
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South-Eastern part of country). 182–179 BCE: Gaizatorix I (an ally of Pharnaces I of Pontus; ruled in North-Western part of country). ca. 170–150 BCE:...
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In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 115. Plutarch, Pyrrhus...
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now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aeacides". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. The Ancient Library - Aeacides...
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of the son of the warrior Achilles and the Princess Deidamia in Greek mythology, and also the mythical progenitor of the ruling dynasty of the Molossians...
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Mithridates III Pharnaces I Mithridates IV Philopator Philadephos with Laodice Mithridates V Euergetes Mithridates VI Eupator Pharnaces II Darius Arsaces...
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Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Mithridates III", Boston, (1867) Strabo, Geography, H. C. Hamilton &...
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Kingdom of Armenia and the Bosporan Kingdom ruled by Mithridates' son, Pharnaces II became allied client states of Rome after the conclusion of the wars...
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Colchis (section In mythology)
installed Aristarchus as a dynast (63–47 BC). On the fall of Pompey, Pharnaces II, son of Mithridates, took advantage of Julius Caesar being occupied...
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