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Antiphanes
4th-century BC Greek poet of Middle Comedy
Arsites
thumb|upright=1.2|Location of Hellespontine Phrygia, and the provincial capital of [[Dascylium, in the Achaemenid Empire, c. 500 BC.]] upright=1.2|thumb|Achaemenid Dynast of Hellespontine Phrygia attacking a Greek [[psiloi, Altıkulaç Sarcophagus, early 4th century BCE.]] Arsites (; ; ) was Persian satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia in the Achaemenid Empire in the 4th century BC. His satrapy also included the region of Paphlagonia.
Spithridates
Spithridates (; ; fl. 365–334 BC) was a Persian satrap of Lydia and Ionia under the high king Darius III Codomannus. He was one of the Persian commanders at the Battle of the Granicus, in 334 BC. In this engagement, while he was aiming a blow from behind at Alexander the Great, his arm was cut off by Cleitus the Black and he subsequently died.
Mithridates of Persia
Persian general (died 334 BC)
Ptolemy
Selected officer of Alexander the Great
Pharnaces
4th-century BC Persian noble (died 334 BC)
Rhoesaces
Rhosaces (; ) was the brother of Spithridates, a satrap of Ionia and Lydia, with whom he might have held the possession of satrap. Rhosaces served in the earlier campaigns of Artaxerxes III in Phoenicia and in Egypt where he was singled out for his 'valour and loyalty' to serve alongside allied Theban troops. He took part in the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC where he was killed. According to Diodorus of Sicily, after his brother Spithridates was killed by Alexander the Great the fight between Alexander and Rhosaces happened like this:
Mithrobuzanes
thumb|upright=1.37|Mithrobuzanes was satrap of Cappadocia (satrapy)|Achaemenid Cappadocia. Mithrobuzanes (; ; d. 334 BC) was a Persian governor (satrap) of Cappadocia in the 4th century BC, during the reign of Darius III. He was probably a son of Ariarathes. As a Persian military commander he was killed at the Battle of Granicus fighting Alexander the Great.