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TISSAPHERNES

Tissaphernes was a Persian satrap. He died in 395 BC. In 414 BC he was made satrap of Lower Asia. During the latter part of the Peloponnesian War he played with the Spartans by holding out promises of help, his real policy being to let both the Athenians and the Spartans wear themselves out. After the battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC, where he was one of the four generals of Artaxerxes, he treacherously murdered the leaders of the 10,000 Greeks. From 400-395, as governor of the coast of Asia Minor, he carried on war with the Spartans, but his failure caused Artaxerxes to give orders for his execution.
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