Paktyes

Paktyes was around 542 BC. The leader of the Lydian revolt against the Persian king Cyrus II.

Life

After Cyrus II around 542 BC BC had defeated the Lydian king Croesus , he commissioned the Lyder Paktyes with the delivery of the treasures confiscated from the Persians. But no sooner had Cyrus II left for Ekbatana than Paktyes instigated a revolt against Persian rule and recruited an army with the gold placed under his supervision. With this he stepped to the siege of the governor Tabalos appointed by Cyrus II in Sardis .

When the Persian king heard of this uprising, the Medes Mazares went to Lydia with an army on his orders to get Paktyes into their hands as alive as possible. The rebel first sought refuge in Kyme . Despite allegedly two requests from an oracle to deliver Paktyes, he was sent on from his first place of refuge to Mytilene . Mazares negotiated with this city about the conditions for the surrender of the fugitive, who has since escaped to Chios . But there his journey came to an end, because the islanders handed him over to the Persians at the cost of the possession of Atarneus .

Historical credibility

Hartmut Erbse is critical of Herodotus' remarks , as he suspects that Herodotus served as a template for the report by Charon von Lampsakos and that Herodotus expanded it into a moralizing novella . Wolfgang Aly did similar research in his investigations.

literature

J. Miller: Paktyes 2). In: Paulys real encyclopedia of classical antiquity . Vol. XVIII 2 (1942) Col. 2440.

Remarks

↑ Herodotus 1: 153-161.
↑ Charon's story according to FGrHrst 262 F9, just a short note: ... Paktyes fled from Cyrus in a hurry to Mytilene and Chios. in Hartmut Erbse: Studies to Understand Herodotus , de Gruyter, Berlin 1992, p. 37.
↑ Wolfgang Aly: Folk tales, sagas and novels in Herodotus and his contemporaries - An investigation on d. folk. Elements d. ancient greek. Prose story - , Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969

personal data
SURNAME	Paktyes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lydian insurgent against Cyrus II (around 542 BC)
DATE OF BIRTH	before 542 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 542 BC Chr.

[1] Herodotus 1: 153-161.

[2] Charon's story according to FGrHrst 262 F9, just a short note: ... Paktyes fled from Cyrus in a hurry to Mytilene and Chios. in Hartmut Erbse: Studies to Understand Herodotus , de Gruyter, Berlin 1992, p. 37.

[3] Wolfgang Aly: Folk tales, sagas and novels in Herodotus and his contemporaries - An investigation on d. folk. Elements d. ancient greek. Prose story - , Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969