Menostanes

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Menostanes ( old Persian: Manuštānu ; † 423 BC ), son of Artarios , was a member of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty in the 5th century BC. On his father's side, he was a grandson of the Great King Xerxes I.

Menostanes stepped up for his uncle Artaxerxes I around 456 BC. BC as a general against the rebelling Megabyzos II , by whom he was defeated and wounded in a battle. 423 BC He supported the takeover of Sogdianos and was appointed by him as a reward to commander (hazarapatiš) of the apple bearer guard and thus to the vizier of the great king. However, he could not prevent the rapid fall of Sogdiano and the takeover of Darius II in the same year. Menostanes was imprisoned and killed himself shortly after the failed revolt of Prince Arsites to avoid an expected execution.

Apart from the classical tradition of Ktesias , Menostanes is also known from preserved clay tablets of the Murašû family from Nippur , from which his old Persian name including patronymic and his dignity as a “royal prince” (mār bīt šarri) can be taken. The clay tablets concerning him date to the 40th and 41st year of reign (425/424 BC) of Artaxerxes I.

literature

  • Pierre Briant : From Cyrus to Alexander. A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake 2002.
  • Guillaume Cardascia : Les Archives des Murašû. Une famille d'hommes d'affairs babyloniennes à l'époque perse (455 - 403 av. J.-C.). Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1951 (Paris, dissertation of June 7, 1946).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Ktesias von Knidos : Persika , in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 688, Frag. 14, 41 [based on the edition by Dominique Lenfant ]. See Briant, p. 577.
  2. ↑ Ktesias von Knidos: Persika , in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 688, Frag. 15, 48-49. See Briant, p. 588.
  3. ↑ Ktesias von Knidos: Persika , in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 688, Frag. 15, 50.
  4. ↑ Ktesias von Knidos: Persika , in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 688, Frag. 15, 52.
personal data
SURNAME Menostanes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manuštānu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Achaemenid, grandson of the Great King Xerxes I.
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 423 BC Chr.