Pactyas (Lydian)

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Pactyas, alternatively Pactyes, was a Lydian general who defected to the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great.

Pactyas later revolted against Cyrus and later fled to Greece. There, Pactyas took refuge in a sanctuary of Athena on the Greek island of Chios before he was eventually captured.^[1]