page_title: Pharnabazus II
section_title: Pharnabazus in Greek literature
hierarchical_section_title: Pharnabazus II / Pharnabazus in Greek literature
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Claire Bloom and Richard Burton from a March 1956 issue of Screenland Plus TV Land. Note that the uploaded photo is larger and of better quality than the magazine photo. A search for renewal was done at copyright.gov using the title "Screenland". There were no renewals for the title; the 3 listings for it are newer original registrations and they are not for publications. There's no evidence of renewal for the magazine.
context_page_description: Pharnabazus II was a Persian soldier and statesman, and Satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia. He was the son of Pharnaces II of Phrygia and grandson of Pharnabazus I, and great-grandson of Artabazus I. He and his male ancestors, forming the Pharnacid dynasty, had governed the satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia from its headquarters at Dascylium since 478 BC. He married Apama, daughter of Artaxerxes II of Persia, and their son Artabazus was likewise a satrap of Phrygia. His grand-daughter Barsine married Alexander the Great.
  According to research by Theodor Nöldeke, he was descended from Otanes, one of the associates of Darius in the murder of Smerdis.
context_section_description: Pharnabazus was one of the best known Satraps among the Greeks, and had many exchanges with them. He is one of the main characters in the Hellenica of Xenophon, also appears in his Anabasis, and is also very present in the History of the Peloponnesian War of Thucydides.
  The family of Pharnabazus was closely related to the Greek world. His son Artabazos II married a Greek noblewoman from Rhodes, and lived in exile with his family at the Macedonian court of Philip II for more than ten years. His grand-daughter Barsine was half Rhodian Greek, and married Alexander the Great.
caption: Claire Bloom as Barsine, grand-daughter of Pharnabazus, and Richard Burton as Alexander the Great, in Alexander the Great (1956 film).
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