Mascames
Family: Persian · Role: governor at Doriscos · First appears: Book 7 · §100–106
Life events
- Xerxes appointed Mascames governor, replacing the governor appointed by Dareios.(Book 7 · §100–106 · 📍 Doriscos)
- Mascames at Doriscos resisted many attempts to conquer him.(Book 7 · §100–106 · 📍 Doriscos)
- “but Mascames at Doriscos none were ever able to conquer, though many tried.”
- Xerxes and Artaxerxes sent gifts to Mascames and his descendants.(Book 7 · §100–106)
- With: Xerxes Artaxerxes
- “to him alone Xerxes used to send gifts, considering him the best of all the men whom either he himself or Dareios had appointed to be governors,--he used to send him gifts, I say, every year, and so also did Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes to the descendants of Mascames.”
Book 7 · §100–106
- with Xerxes (Xerxes appointed Mascames governor at Doriscos.) “Then after he had conversed with him, and had appointed Mascames son of Megadostes to be governor at this place Doriscos, removing the governor who had been appointed by Dareios, Xerxes marched forth his army through Thrace to invade Hellas.”
- parent: Megadostes “Then after he had conversed with him, and had appointed Mascames son of Megadostes to be governor at this place Doriscos, removing the governor who had been appointed by Dareios, Xerxes marched forth his army through Thrace to invade Hellas.”
- with Dareios (Dareios had appointed Mascames governor.) “the men whom either he himself or Dareios had appointed to be governors”
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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.