Mentor of Rhodes
Greek mercenary leader
385 BCE to 340 BCE
Mentor of Rhodes (c. 385 BCE – 340 BCE) is a Greek mercenary who fights both for and against Artaxerxes III of Persia.
He is also known as the first husband of Barsine, who later becomes mistress to Alexander the Great.
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Artaxerxes collects a great army early in 345 BCE and marches against the Phoenician city of Sidon.
Mentor of Rhodes, who had helped betray Sidon, rises high in the king's favor and enters into a close understanding with the eunuch Bagoas, the king's favorite. (His name is the Greek form of an Old Persian name often used for eunuchs.)
Bagoas rules the court and the upper satrapies after the king's return to Susa, working in close partnership with Mentor of Rhodes, who restores the authority of the empire throughout the west.