Ardumaniš

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Ardumaniš (alternatively but incorrectly Aspathines ), son of Vahauka, was a Persian nobleman of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC.

Conspirators

Ardumaniš was born in 522 BC. Next to Otanes , Gobryas , Intaphrenes , Hydarnes , Megabyzos and Dareios one of the seven conspirators against the usurper Gaumata . Along with Gobryas, he was one of the first to be initiated by Otanes into the secret usurpation of the Persian throne by the magicians . He then initiated the hydarnes himself. During the fight in the royal apartments, Ardumaniš was wounded in the thigh by a lance blow. According to this, nothing further is known about him.

Surname

In the histories of Herodotus , the person in the place of Ardumaniš is named Aspathines ( Greek: Ἀσπαθίνης), which the author obviously made a mistake, because in the Behistun inscription the correct name of the conspirator is undoubtedly recorded. Herodotus had probably confused him with a Persian dignitary named Aspačanā , son of Prexaspes , who is immortalized in a relief representation at the grave of Darius I in Naqsch-e Rostam as a royal "armor-bearer" . The rendering of the correct name of Ardumaniš is thus the only one of all the conspirators in whom Herodotus was wrong.

In the tradition of the Ktesias there is neither a reference to an Ardumaniš nor Aspathines, instead completely different and wrong names are mentioned here.

progeny

The descendants of Ardumaniš were one of the families of the so-called "seven Persians" of the Persian nobility, the descendants of the seven conspirators (including Darius). Descendants of higher prominence cannot be ascribed to him. Herodotus for the year 480 BC. The fleet commander named Prexaspes, son of Aspathines, was probably the son of the armored man Aspačanā .

literature

  • Pierre Briant : From Cyrus to Alexander. A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake 2002, pp. 107-113.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Behistun-Inscription (DB), plate 4, §68 in: Roland G. Kent, Old Persian-Grammar Texts Lexicon . American Oriental Society, 1953. Herodotus , Historíai . 3, 70.
  2. ↑ Herodotus, Historíai. 3, 78.
  3. ↑ See Briant, pp. 108 and 339.
  4. ↑ Ktesias of Knidos , Persika . in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians . No. 688, question. 13, 16 [based on the edition by Dominique Lenfant ].
  5. ↑ Herodotus, Historíai. 7, 97.
personal data
SURNAME Ardumaniš
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aspathines
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the nobility in Persia, conspirator against Gaumata
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.