Teispiden

The Teispiden were a Persian noble family (550-522 BC) from which the first Persian great king, Cyrus II , and his heir to the throne Cambyses II came. Their royal line passed into that of the Achaemenids , which Darius I founded. After Cambyses was assassinated, Darius succeeded him to the throne. In his Behistun inscription he proclaimed the rightful heir to the throne and indicated a distant relationship between himself and the Cambyses family. The truthfulness of the kinship statements is, however, strongly questioned in the professional world, presumably they were constructed or at least greatly expanded in order to legitimize the succession.

literature

• Pierre Briant : From Cyrus to Alexander . Winona Lake 2002.
• Josef Wiesehöfer : The early Persia. History of an ancient empire . CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3406433073 .