Mazares

Family: Median · Role: commander · First appears: Book 1 · §148–157

Life events

Cyrus accepted Croesus’s advice and ordered Mazares to impose it on the Lydians and capture Pactyas.(Book 1 · §148–157)
- With: Cyrus Croesus
- “Then he called Mazares a Mede, and laid charge upon him to proclaim to the Lydians that which Croesus suggested, and moreover to sell into slavery all the rest who had joined with the Lydians in the expedition to Sardis, and finally by all means to bring Pactyas himself alive to Cyrus.”

employer: Cyrus “Then he called Mazares a Mede, and laid charge upon him to proclaim to the Lydians that which Croesus suggested, and moreover to sell into slavery all the rest who had joined with the Lydians in the expedition to Sardis, and finally by all means to bring Pactyas himself alive to Cyrus.”
with Cyrus (Cyrus assigned Mazares a command.) “Then he called Mazares a Mede, and laid charge upon him to proclaim to the Lydians that which Croesus suggested”

with Pactyas (Mazares's messages prompted preparations to hand Pactyas over.) “Those of Mytilene however, when Mazares sent messages to them, were preparing to deliver up Pactyas for a price”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.