Teaspis
Family: Persian · Role: father of Sataspes · First appears: Book 4 · §42–48
Life events
- Teaspis secured Sataspes’s life on the condition that he sail around Libya.(Book 4 · §42–48)
- With: Sataspes Xerxes
- “the mother of Sataspes, who was a sister of Dareios, entreated for his life, saying that she would herself lay upon him a greater penalty than Xerxes; for he should be compelled (she said) to sail round Libya, until in sailing round it he came to the Arabian gulf. So then Xerxes having agreed upon these terms,”
- Pharandates commanded the Mares and Colchians; Masistios commanded the Alarodians and Saspeirians.(Book 7 · §70–85)
- With: Pharandates Masistios Siromitres
- “Of the Mares and Colchians the commander was Pharandates the son of Teaspis. The Alarodians and Saspeirians served armed like the Colchians; and of these the commander was Masistios the son of Siromitres.”
Book 4 · §42–48
- child: Sataspes “as to Sataspes the son of Teaspis the Achaimenid”
Book 7 · §70–85
- child: Pharandates “Of the Mares and Colchians the commander was Pharandates the son of Teaspis.”
Book 9 · §71–78
- child: Pharandates “the concubine of Pharandates the son of Teaspis a Persian”
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