Editing Eunuch (section)

===First millennium BCE===
* Mutakkil-Marduk, 8th century BCE: chief eunuch of the [[Middle Assyrian Empire]] and [[:wikt:eponym|eponym]] of the year 798 BCE in an Assyrian [[Mari Eponym Chronicle|eponym chronicle
]].<ref>Jean-Jaques Glassner: ''Mesopotamian Chronicles''. Atlanta 2004, p. 169.</ref>
* [[House of Astiruwa#Yariri|Yariri]], 8th century BCE: [[regent]] of the [[Syro-Hittite states|Syro-Hittite state]] of  [[Carchemish]] thought likely to be a eunuch.<ref name="Trevor Bryce 2012, p. 95"/>
* [[Sîn-šumu-līšir]], 7th century BCE: eunuch who attempted to usurp power in the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]].
* Aspamistres or Mithridates, 5th century BCE: bodyguard of [[Xerxes I]], and, with [[Artabanus of Persia|Artabanus]], his murderer.
* [[Artoxares]]: an envoy of [[Artaxerxes I]] and [[Darius II]] of Persia.
* [[Bagoas]] (4th century BCE): prime minister of king [[Artaxerxes III]] of Persia, and his assassin (Bagoas is an old Persian word meaning ''eunuch'').
* [[Bagoas (courtier)|Bagoas]], 4th century BCE: a favorite of [[Alexander the Great]].
* Batis, 4th century BCE: resisted Alexander the Great at the [[Siege of Gaza (332 BCE)]].
* [[Philetaerus]], 4th/3rd century BCE: founder of the [[Kingdom of Pergamon]]
* [[Zhao Gao]], died 210 BCE: favourite of [[Qin Shi Huang]] who plotted against [[Li Si]].
* [[Sima Qian]] (old romanization Ssu-ma Chi'en; 2nd/1st century BCE): the first person to have practiced modern [[historiography]] – gathering and analyzing both primary and secondary sources to write his monumental history of the Chinese Empire.
* [[Ganymedes (eunuch)|Ganymedes]], 1st century BCE: highly capable adviser and general of [[Cleopatra]] VII's sister and rival, Princess [[Arsinoe IV]]. Unsuccessfully attacked Julius Caesar three times at Alexandria.
* [[Pothinus]], 1st century BCE: regent for pharaoh [[Ptolemy XII]].