id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-665 Artabazos I of Phrygia - Wikipedia .html text/html 2009 271 75 Artabazus was one of the generals of Xerxes in the 480 BC Second Persian invasion of Greece, in command of the Parthians and the Chorasmians in the Achaemenid army.[1] He was particularly in charge of the reserve forces guarding the route back to Asia, and responsible for suppressing a revolt in Potidaea.[2] Satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia[edit] Artabazos, together with Megabyzus, then satrap of Syria, had command of the Persian armies sent to put down the revolt of Inarus in Egypt. When Xerxes I was assassinated in 465 BC, he was succeeded by his son Artaxerxes I, but several parts of the Achaemenid empire soon revolted, foremost of which were Bactria and Egypt. The Egyptian Inarus defeated the Persian satrap of Egypt Achaemenes, a brother of Artaxerxes, and took control of Lower Egypt. Achaemenid satraps of Hellespontine Phrygia ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-665.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-665.txt