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).[1] He was killed during the cavalry engagement.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, 1.12.8
  2. ^ Arrian, 1.16.3
  3. ^ Diodorus, Bibliotheca historica, 17.21.3, (he confuses him with Atizyes)

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.

 

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