Bancaeus

This article is about the 5th century BCE Achaemenid nobleman. For the 6th century BCE Achaemenid nobleman, see Bagaeus.

Bancaeus (Ancient Greek: Βαγκαῖος) or Bagaeus (Ancient Greek: Βαγαῖος) was a Persian man of the 4th and 5th centuries BCE.[1][2]

He was a half-brother of the satrap Pharnabazus II, is mentioned by the writer Xenophon as co-commander of a body of Persian cavalry, with Rathines, which, in a skirmish near Dascylium, defeated the cavalry of the Spartan king Agesilaus II, in the first year of his invasion of Asia, in 396 BCE.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Xenophon, Hellenica 3.4.13
  2. ^ Plutarch, Ages. 9
  3. ^ Stronk, Jan P. (2023). The Ten Thousand in Thrace: An Archaeological and Historical Commentary on Xenophon’s Anabasis. Brill Publishers. p. 107. ISBN 9789004674806. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
  4. ^ Grote, George (1869). A History of Greece. Vol. 9. p. 85. ISBN 9783846055328. Retrieved 2025-09-07. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Elder, Edward (1870). "Bagaeus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 453.

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