Cyprian War
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
his campaign against Evagoras · last war · war against Evagoras · war in Cyprus
in the texts
Evagoras
The long war in Cyprus between Evagoras and the Persian king, remembered as proof of Evagoras' courage and power.
And finally he so glutted them with war that the Persian kings, who at other times were not accustomed to make peace with their rebellious subjects until they had become masters of their persons, gladly made peace, abandoning this custom and leaving entirely undisturbed the authority of Evagoras.
And although the king within three years destroyed the dominion of the Lacedaemonians, who were then at the height of their glory and power, yet after he had waged war against Evagoras for ten years, he left him lord of all that he had possessed before he entered upon the war.
but when he was forced to go to war, he proved so valiant, and had so valiant an ally in his son Pnytagoras, that he almost subdued the whole of Cyprus, ravaged Phoenicia, took Tyre by storm, caused Cilicia to revolt from the king, and slew so many of his enemies that many of the Persians, when they mourn over their sorrows, recall the valor of Evagoras.
Panegyricus
The Persian King's prolonged and unsuccessful military campaign against Evagoras of Cyprus.
Next, there is his campaign against Evagoras.