Pharandates
Φαρανδάτης
(Φαρανδάτης a Persian, son of Teaspes, commanded the Marians and Colchians in the expedition of Xerxes against Greece. (Her. 7.79.) He is mentioned again by Herodotus (9.76), as having carried off by violence a woman of Cos, and made her his concubine. She was rescued by the Greeks after the battle of Plataea.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.