Mania
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Subject of Pharnabazus whose goods were seized under the laws of war.
Thus Dercyllides argues, in Xenophon, that as Pharnabazus was an enemy to the Lacedaemonians, every thing belonging to Mania, who was his subject, might be seized by the laws of war.
Hellenica
Widow of Zenis of Dardanus who persuaded Pharnabazus to make her satrap of Aeolis, governed loyally and successfully, and was later murdered by her son-in-law Meidias.
Pharnabazus, my husband was not only a friend to you in all other ways, but he also paid over the tributes which were your due, so that you commended and honoured him.
and she not only kept securely for Pharnabazus the cities which she had received from her husband, but also gained possession of cities on the coast which had not been subject to him, Larisa, Hamaxitus, and Colonae—attacking their walls with a Greek mercenary force, while she herself looked on from a carriage;
And when she had become mistress of the province, she not only paid over the tributes no less faithfully than had her husband, but besides this, whenever she went to the court of Pharnabazus she always carried him gifts, and whenever he came down to her province she received him with far more magnificence and courtesy than any of his other governors;