Amorges
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Amorges son of the Persian satrap
Pissouthnes (Πισσούθνης), was the leader of a Caria
n rebellion in 413 BC. He was captured by Tissaphernes
and executed in 412 BC.
Satrap
Satrap was the name given to the governors of the provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as the Sassanid Empire and the Hellenistic empires....
Pissouthnes (Πισσούθνης), was the leader of a Caria
Caria
Caria was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the Carian population in forming Greek-dominated states there...
n rebellion in 413 BC. He was captured by Tissaphernes
Tissaphernes
Tissaphernes was a Persian soldier and statesman, grandson of Hydarnes.In 413 BC he was satrap of Lydia and Caria, and commander in chief of the Persian army in Asia Minor...
and executed in 412 BC.
Sources
- AndocidesAndocidesAndocides or Andokides was a logographer in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE.He was implicated during the Peloponnesian War in the mutilation of the...
, On the Peace with Sparta 3, 29. - ThucydidesThucydidesThucydides was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC...
, The Peloponnesian War VIII 5, 19, 28, 54.
External links
- Jona Lendering: Amorges, in: Livius.org
- Article Amorges 4 in Encyclopædia Iranica