Mithridates (Persian general)

Mithridates
Μιθριδάτης or Μιθραδάτης
Born
Diedd. 334 BC
Cause of death
stabbed with a lance by Alexander the Great

Mithridates or Mithradates (Greek: Μιθριδάτης or Μιθραδάτης) was a Persian noble. His wife was the daughter of Darius III with the sister of Pharnaces, which made him the son-in-law of Darius. He was slain by the hand of Alexander the Great himself, at the Battle of the Granicus (modern-day Turkey) in 334 BC, when Alexander plunged his lance through Mithridates' face.

References

  1. 1 2 Arrian, 1.15.7, 16.3
  2. ↑ Diodorus, 17.20.2, 21.3 (wrongly naming him Spithrodates)

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