A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Φαρνάκης).

1. The progenitor of the kings of Cappadocia, who is himself styled by Diodorus king of that country. He is said to have married Atossa, a sister of Camrbyses, the faiher of Cyrus; by whom he had a son named Gallus, who was the great-grandfather of Anaphas, one of the seven Persians who slew the Magi. (Diod. xxxi. Exc. Phot. p. 517.) [ANAPHAS]. But the whole genealogy is probably fictitious.