Terituchmes

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Terituchmes († 409/408 BC), son of Idernes , was a Persian satrap of the Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC. Possibly he was a descendant of Hydarnes , one of the seven conspirators against Gaumata .

Through his marriage to the Princess Amestris , Terituchmes was a son-in-law of the Great King Darius II and his sister Stateira († 400 BC) was married to the Prince Arsakes, who later became the Great King Artaxerxes II. Terituchmes had not described his father in more detail Province, probably media , can succeed as governor.

Terituchmes had a half-sister named Roxane, who was not only extremely beautiful, but also trained with the bow and spear. He fell in love with her and in order to be free for her, he planned to murder his royal wife and to instigate an uprising against Darius II with three hundred supporters. But the royal couple had anticipated him and had bribed one of his followers Udiastes , who in turn killed him in a duel. For the planned uprising, Queen Parysatis had taken revenge on the Terituchmes family and had his mother, son, brothers Mitrostes and Helikos and other siblings killed. Only Stateira could avoid revenge thanks to her husband's intercession.

The Terituchme rebellion was probably that of Xenophon for the year 409/408 BC. Mentioned uprising of the Medes.

literature

  • Carsten Binder: Plutarch's Vita des Artaxerxes. A historical commentary (= Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies . Supplements. NF 1). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020269-4 , p. 102, (also: Düsseldorf, Universität, dissertation, 2007).
  • Hilmar Klinkott : The satrap. An Achaemenid office bearer and his room for maneuver (= Oikumene. Studies on ancient world history. 1). Verlag Antike, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-938032-02-2 (Also: Tübingen, University, dissertation, 2002).

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Klinkott, p. 514.
  2. ↑ Ktesias von Knidos : Persika , in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 688, Frag. 15, 55 [based on the edition by Dominique Lenfant ].
  3. ↑ Ktesias von Knidos: Persika , in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 688, Frag. 15, 56 and 61.
  4. ↑ Xenophon , Hellenika. 1, 2, 19.
personal data
SURNAME Terituchmes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Satrap, son-in-law of the Great King Darius II and brother-in-law of Artaxerxes II.
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.