Hyperanthes

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Hyperanthes († 480 BC ) was a member of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty in the 5th century BC. He was a son of the great king Dareios I and the Phratagone, daughter of Artanes . His full brother was Abrokomas .

During the invasion of Greece by Xerxes I in 480 BC. Both Hyperanthes and Abrokomas fell in the battle of Thermopylae .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Herodotus , Historíai . 7, 224, 2.
personal data
SURNAME Hyperanthes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Achaemenid, son of the great king Dareios I.
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 480 BC Chr.
Place of death at Thermopylae