Mithridates (Persian general)

Mithridates
Μιθριδάτης or Μιθραδάτης
Born	Ancient Greece
Died	d. 334 BC Turkey
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.[1][2] 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.[1]

References

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

Sources

• Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Mithridates (5)", Boston, (1867)