Datis

Family: Persian · Role: general · First appears: Book 6 · §91–100

Life events

• Artaphrenes commanded the Lydians and Mysians and had invaded Marathon with Datis.(Book 7 · §70–85)
  • With: Artaphrenes
  • “Of the Lydians and Mysians the commander was Artaphrenes the son of Artaphrenes, he who invaded Marathon together with Datis.”

Book 6 · §91–100

• employer: Dareios (Dareios appointed and sent Datis as a general.) “appointing other generals to command he despatched them against Eretria and Athens, namely Datis, who was a Mede by race, and Artaphrenes the son of Artaphrenes, a nephew of the king”

Book 7 · §8–9

• with Artaphrenes (They were co-commanders of the army.) “at the time when Datis and Artaphrenes were commanders of our army,”

Book 7 · §70–85

• with Artaphrenes (They invaded Marathon together.) “Of the Lydians and Mysians the commander was Artaphrenes the son of Artaphrenes, he who invaded Marathon together with Datis.”

Book 7 · §86–99

• child: Harmamithras “The commanders of the cavalry were Harmamithras and Tithaios sons of Datis, but the third, Pharnuches, who was in command of the horse with them, had been left behind at Sardis sick:”
• child: Tithaios “The commanders of the cavalry were Harmamithras and Tithaios sons of Datis, but the third, Pharnuches, who was in command of the horse with them, had been left behind at Sardis sick:”

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