Abrokomas (son of Darius)
Abrokomas († August 11, 480 BC at Thermopylae ) was a son of the Persian great king Dareios I and the Phratagune . Phratagune was the daughter of Artanes , brother of Darius. For Abrokomes, therefore, Darius was both father and great-uncle. Like his brother Hyperanthes, Abrokomas probably died on August 11, 480 BC. u. Z. in the battle of Thermopylae , fighting for Xerxes I. The spelling Abrokomes is a Hellenization.
He has the same name as the Persian general Abrokomas , who lived around 400 BC. Lived.
literature
- Walther Judeich : Abrokomas 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 115.
- Abrokomas. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Metzler, Stuttgart 1996-2015, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 .
- Jack Martin Balcer: A Prosopographical Study of the Ancient Persians . Lewiston NY 1993, ISBN 0-7734-9372-7 , p. 109
- Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, Max Duncker: History of antiquity . Berlin 1882, p. 257
- Nic Fields, Steve Noon: Thermopylae 480 BC: Last Stand of the 300 . Oxford 2007, ISBN 1-84176-180-X , p. 35
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herodotus : Historien 7, 224, online .
- ↑ ИНДОЕВРОПЕЙСКОЕ ЯЗЫКОЗНАНИЕ И КЛАССИЧЕСКАЯ ФИЛОЛОГИЯ-XII (чтения памяти И. М. Тронского), St Petersburg in 2008, as a pdf here (PDF; 4.3 MB), English summary p 76
- ^ The new Pauly sv Abrokomas
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abrokomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abrokomes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | persian prince |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 480 BC Chr. |
| Place of death | Thermopylae |