Petenes

Petenes (Greek: Πετήνης) was one of the Persian generals in the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). He was killed during the cavalry engagement.

References

Sources

• Smith, William (1878). A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography Mythology and Geography Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Harper.

• Heckel, Waldemar (2006). Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander’s Empire. Blackwell Publishing.

External links

• Original text of The Anabasis of Alexander
• English version of The Anabasis of Alexander

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