Pharnaspes
Φαρνάσπης
(Φαρνάσπης), a Persian, of the family of the Achaemenidae, was the father of Cassandane, a favourite wife of Cyrus the Great. (Her. 2.1, 3.2.)
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.