Ariobarzanes of Phrygia

Ariobarzanes, Ariobarzan or spelled as Ario Barzan or Aryo Barzan, perhaps signifying "exalting the Aryans" (death: crucified in c 362 BCE), is Satrap of Phrygia, leader of an independence revolt, and the first known of the line of rulers of the Greek town of Cius from which were eventually to stem the kings of Pontus in the 3rd century BCE.

A Persian satrap of Phrygia and military commander, Ariobarzanes is apparently a cadet member of the Achaimenid dynasty, specifically its branch which had settled to hold Dascylium of Hellespont in the 470s BCE.

Cius is located near Dascylium, and Cius seemingly is a share of family holdings for the branch of Ariobarzanes.

Ariobarzanes' one predecessor was a (kinsman) named Mithradates (possibly the Mithradates, Satrap of Cappadocia).

The archaeologist Walther Judeich claims that Ariobarzanes was that Mithradates' son, but Brian C McGing refutes that specific filiation.

Seemingly, no classical source itself calls them son and father, the filiation being a later reconstruction on basis of successorship.

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