Hystaspes (son of Xerxes I.)

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Hystaspes ( old Persian Wištāspa ) was a member of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty in the 5th century BC. According to Ktesias, he was the second, according to Diodorus, the third son of the Great King Xerxes I and Amestris .

Hystaspes was installed as a satrap in Bactria by his father and consequently when he was murdered in 465 BC. Not been present at court. Apparently he was deposed from his post shortly after Artaxerxes I came to power and the eldest brother Darius was executed , as Artapanos , another holder of the governor's office, was soon named.

literature

  • Margaret C. Miller: Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC. A Study in Cultural Receptivity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 0-521-60758-2 , p. 14.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Ktesias of Knidos : Persika . In: The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 688, Frag. 13, 24 [based on the edition by Dominique Lenfant ]. Diodorus 11, 69, 2.
  2. ↑ Diodorus 11, 69, 2.
  3. ↑ Ktesias of Knidos: Persika. In: The Fragments of the Greek Historians. No. 688, question. 14, 35.
personal data
SURNAME Hystaspes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wištāspa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Achaemenide, son of the great king Xerxes I, satrap of Bactria
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 465 BC Chr.