Achaimenes (Satrap)

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Achaimenes ( Greek: Ἀχαιμένης [Achaiménes]) was a Persian prince from the Achaemenid dynasty .

Life

According to Herodotus Achaemenes, was named after the founder of the dynasty Achaemenes , a son of the Great King I. Darius and his wife Atossa , which he a brother of the late King of Kings I. Xerxes was. According to Ktesias, however, he was a son of Xerxes I and his wife Amestris and thus a brother of Artaxerxes I.

After Xerxes 484 BC. Chr. Egypt had won, he sat there Achaemenes as its governor ( satrap ) one to the uprising of the Egyptians after the death of Cambyses II. ' Finish. He did this in 484 BC. And then ruled Egypt under strict leadership.

Achaimenes took part in the Persian Wars under the leadership of Xerxes I and was the leader of the Egyptian fleet. After the battle of Thermopylae , the former Spartan king Demaratus is said to have recommended the great king to send 300 ships to Laconia in order to divert the Spartans from the support of the Athenians . Achaimenes is said to have refuted this argument and advised the great king to let land and sea armies move in parallel so that they can support each other. This is what Xerxes did. Achaimenes died with his entire army in Papremis , near today's Port Said , in a battle in 463 BC. BC with the revolting Inaros II , a Libyan prince.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ktesias, Persika ( FGrH ) 186, F15, § 36.
  2. ↑ Herodotus , Histories 7,7.
  3. ↑ Herodotus, Histories 7.97.
  4. ↑ Herodotus, Histories 7,234 f.
  5. ↑ Herodotus, Histories 7,236.
  6. ↑ Herodotus, Histories 7,237.
  7. ↑ Herodotus: Histories. German complete edition, translated by A. Horneffer, re-edited and explained by HW Haussig , with an introduction by WF Otto . Alfred Kröner, Stuttgart 1971, p. 672 f. and p. 743; see. Herodotus, Histories 3:12 and 7,7.
personal data
SURNAME Achaimenes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Satrap of Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 463 BC Chr.
Place of death Papremis