Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Artaxerxes, Asander

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Asander

（Ἄσανδρος).

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Son of Philotas, brother of Parmenio, and one of the generals of Alexander the Great. After the death of Alexander (B.C. 323) he obtained Caria for his satrapy.

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A general of Pharnaces II., king of Bosporus, whom he put to death in B.C. 17, in hopes of obtaining the kingdom. He was confirmed in the sovereignty by Augustus.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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