Petenes
{{Short description|4th-century BC Persian military general}}
Petenes ({{langx|el|Πετήνης}}) was one of the Persian generals in the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, 1.12.8 He was killed during the cavalry engagement. Arrian, 1.16.3 Diodorus, Bibliotheca historica, 17.21.3, (he confuses him with Atizyes)
References
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Sources
- {{cite book|last=Smith|first=William|title=A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography Mythology and Geography Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology|year=1878|publisher=Harper}}
- {{cite book|last=Heckel|first=Waldemar|title=Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander’s Empire|year=2006|publisher=Blackwell Publishing}}
External links
- [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0530 Original text of The Anabasis of Alexander]
- [https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Anabasis_of_Alexander English version of The Anabasis of Alexander]
Category:Military leaders of the Achaemenid Empire
Category:Military personnel of the Achaemenid Empire killed in action
Category:4th-century BC Iranian people
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