[blam]

GGG Ping.

[yarddog]

That name sounds sort of like modern Iranian. I don’t know any Persian but have seen enough names to know that sounds like some of them.

[truth_seeker]

Are ancestors that predate islam deemed to be infidels?

[lightman]

Sorry, every time I read of Darius I can't help but think of this piece which calls him Dairy-@ss.

[BlackVeil]

He had better be careful to keep his tax returns up to date. They have his name, now ...

[Leo Carpathian]

Wheeew!
Finally I can sleep now, knowing that!

[Verginius Rufus]

There are several men named Pharnaces known from ancient literary sources (Greek or Roman).

Thucydides mentions an Artabazus, son of Pharnaces, who was sent by Xerxes to be a satrap in western Asia Minor in the 470s. A satrap in the same area in the late fifth century and early fourth century, known from Thucydides and Xenophon, was Pharnabazus the son of Pharnaces. Thucydides quotes a treaty in 411 B.C. which mentions "the sons of Pharnaces" so evidently Pharnabazus' brother was also of some importance.

Much later, Mithridates the Great, king of Pontus from 111 to 63 B.C., famous for his wars against Rome, was the grandson of a Pharnaces. Mithridates had a son named Pharnaces, whose defeat by Caesar in 47 B.C. is famous for the message Caesar sent to Rome afterwards: veni, vidi, vici.

[SunkenCiv]

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