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'''Sibyrtius''' ({{lang-grc|Σιβύρτιος}} ''Sivyrtios''; lived 4th century BC) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] officer from [[Crete]]<ref>[[Helmut Berve]] (Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage #703)</ref> in the service of [[Alexander the Great]], who was the satrap of [[Arachosia]] and [[Gedrosia]] shortly after the death of Alexander until about 303 BC.

After serving in Alexander's army for a number of years, Sibyrtius was appointed by Alexander, on his return from [[History of India|India]] (326 BCE), governor of the province of [[Kerman Province|Carmania]]. Shortly after, Sibyrtius exchanged this post for the more important [[satrap]]y of [[Arachosia]] and [[Gedrosia]], to which he succeeded on the death of Thoas (Θόας).{{r|arr_6.27_curt_9.10}}

Following the death of Alexander in 323, Sibyrtius, in common with most of the other governors of the remote eastern provinces, retained possession of his satrapy, which was again confirmed to him in the second partition at [[Treaty of Triparadisus|Triparadisus]] in 321.{{r|diod_18.3_just_13.4_phot_82_92}}

In the subsequent divisions involving the eastern satraps, Sibyrtius was one of those who supported [[Peucestas]] against [[Peithon]] and [[Seleucus I Nicator|Seleucus]], and afterwards accompanied Peucestas when he joined [[Eumenes]] in [[Elam|Susiana]] in 317. His attachment was to Peucestas and not to Eumenes, and in Peucestas' subsequent intrigues against his commander-in-chief, Sibyrtius supported him so strongly that he incurred Eumenes' strong resentment, who threatened to bring him to trial; a fate from which he only escaped by a hasty flight.

Sibyrtius' open rupture with Eumenes had the advantage of securing him the favour of [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]], who, after the defeat of his rival, confirmed Sibyrtius in his satrapy, and placed under his command a large part of the select body of troops termed [[Argyraspids]]. Antigonus adopted this measure with the ostensible object of guarding the Eastern provinces against the neighbouring Indians, but according to [[Diodorus Siculus]], Antigonus no longer wished to have this group of troops in his domain at all; their turbulent and disaffected spirit was well known.{{r|diod_19.14_23_48_pol_4.6}}

[[File:Embassy of Megasthenes.jpg|thumb|According to [[Arrian]], [[Megasthenes]] lived in [[Arachosia]] at the court of Sibyrtius, and travelled as an ambassador to the court of [[Chandragupta Maurya]] in [[Pataliputra]].<ref name="AGT"/><ref name="PJK"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Shepherd |first1=William R. |title=The Historical Atlas, "Mediaeval Commerce (Asia)" |date=1926 |url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/persian_empire.jpg}}</ref>]]
[[Arrian]] mentions that [[Megasthenes]], the historian and ambassador of Seleucus to the court of [[Chandragupta Maurya|Chandragupta]], lived with Sibyrtius, suggesting the latter may have remained at his post as satrap for quite a long time:<ref name="AGT">{{cite book |last1=Traver |first1=Andrew G. |title=From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary |date=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-30942-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/frompolistoempir00andr/page/252 252] |url=https://archive.org/details/frompolistoempir00andr |url-access=registration |language=en}}</ref><ref name="PJK">{{cite book |last1=Kosmin |first1=Paul J. |author-link=Paul J. Kosmin |title=The Land of the Elephant Kings |date=2014 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-72882-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UWdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA262 |language=en}}</ref><ref>A.B. Bosworth, 'The Historical Setting of Megasthenes' Indica', CPh 91 (1996), 113-27</ref>
:Megasthenes lived with Sibyrtius, satrap of Arachosia, and often speaks of his visiting [[Sandracottus]], the king of the Indians.{{r|arr_5.6}}

==Notes==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=arr_6.27_curt_9.10>[[Arrian]], ''[[Anabasis Alexandri]]'', [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book6b.asp vi. 27]; [[Quintus Curtius Rufus|Curtius Rufus]], ''Historiae Alexandri Magni'', [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/neuf.htm ix. 10]</ref>
<ref name=diod_18.3_just_13.4_phot_82_92>[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Bibliotheca'', xviii. 3; [[Junianus Justinus|Justin]], ''Epitome of Pompeius Trogus'', [http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/justin/english/trans13.html#4 xiii. 4]; [[Photius I of Constantinople|Photius]], ''Bibliotheca'', [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_03bibliotheca.htm cod. 82], [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_03bibliotheca.htm cod. 92]</ref>
<ref name=diod_19.14_23_48_pol_4.6>Diodorus, xix. 14, 23, 48; [[Polyaenus]], ''Stratagemata'', [http://websfor.org/alexander/polyaenus/polyaenus3.asp iv. 6]</ref>
<ref name=arr_5.6>Arrian, [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book5a.asp v. 6]</ref>
}}

==References==
*A.B. Bosworth, 'The Historical Setting of Megasthenes' Indica', CPh 91 (1996), 113-27
*[[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]] (editor); ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20051026230244/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/3148.html "Sibyrtius"], [[Boston]], (1867)
*Stoneman, R., The Greek Experience of India (Princeton, 2019).

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