Gobryas
Family: Persian · Role: father of Mardonius · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1
Gobryas is identified as the father of Mardonius, who is said to have burnt the place mentioned in Book 1. After the landing of Xerxes, Mardonius served as Xerxes’ general; the Platæans joined the Athenians at sea and repelled him on their own soil.
Relationship record
Life events
- Platæans joined the Athenians at sea and repelled Mardonius on their own soil.(Book 9 · Chapter 1)
Book 1 · Chapter 1
- child: Mardonius “they say that Mardonius, the son of Gobryas, burnt it”
Book 3 · Chapter 11
- child: Mardonius “Mardonius, the son of Gobryas”
Book 7 · Chapter 25
- child: Mardonius “Alexander in Macedonia, who had sent Mardonius the son of Gobryas on a mission to the Athenians”
Book 9 · Chapter 1
- child: Mardonius “Mardonius, the son of Gobryas, the General of Xerxes.”
Book 10 · Chapter 15
- child: Mardonius “there is an ox an offering of the Platæans, when they defended themselves successfully on their own soil with the rest of the Greeks against Mardonius the son of Gobryas.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.