Pharnacid dynasty (Satraps ofHellespontine Phrygia)
c.550–497 BCE (Pharnaces) c.480–455 BCE Artabazus I c.455–430 BCE Pharnabazus I c.430–420 BCE Pharnaces II c.413–374 BCE Pharnabazus II c.407–362 BCE Ariobarzanes c.389–329 BCE Artabazus II c.370–320 BCE Pharnabazus III
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ThePharnacid dynasty was aPersian^[1] dynasty that ruled thesatrapy ofHellespontine Phrygia under theAchaemenid Dynasty from the 5th until the 4th century BCE. It was founded byArtabazus, son of satrapPharnaces I (younger brother ofHystaspes, who was born shortly before 565 BCE), son ofArsames (died ca. 520 BCE). They were directly related to theAchaemenid dynasty itself. The last member of the dynasty wasPharnabazus III.

Before the Pharnacids,Mitrobates (ca. 525–522 BCE) had ruled Hellespontine Phrygia forCyrus the Great andCambyses II, before being killed and his territory absorbed by the satrap ofLydia,Oroetes. Following the reorganization ofDarius I, Mitrobates was succeeded byOebares II (c.493), son ofMegabazus, before Artabazus became satrap circa 479 BCE and started the Pharnacid dynasty, which would ruleHellespontine Phrygia until the conquests ofAlexander the Great (338 BCE).^[2]

The residence of the Pharnacid Dynasty was atDascylium (near modern-day Ergili, Turkey).

After the conquests ofAlexander the Great, several women of the Pharnacid family, all daughters ofArtabazos II, married Alexandrine nobility: Artonis marriedEumenes,Artakama marriedPtolemy I, whileBarsine may have married Alexander the Great and given him a son,Heracles of Macedon.

• Pharnaces I (Elamite:Parnaka; c. 550–497 BC)
• Artabazus I (fl. 480–455 BCE)
• Pharnabazus I (fl. 455–430 BCE)
• Pharnaces II of Phrygia (fl. 430–422 BCE)
• Pharnabazus II (fl. 422–387 BCE)
• Ariobarzanes of Phrygia (Persian:Ariyabrdhna; (fl. 407–362 BCE)
• Artabazus II (fl. 389–329 BCE)
• Pharnabazus III (fl. 370–320 BCE)

• Heidemarie Koch,Es kündet Dareios der König. Vom Leben im persischen Großreich. 1992, Mainz.

• "Pharnaces (1)" at Livius.org
• Weiskopf, Michael (1994). "DASCYLIUM".Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VII, Fasc. 1. pp. 85–90.

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