Herodotus' Histories

Pixodaros

First appears: Book 5 · §112–125

Life events

  • The Carians fought the Persians and were defeated, suffering ten thousand dead.(Book 5 · §112–125 · 📍 the river Marsyas)
    • With: Mausolos Syennesis
    • “at length they were worsted by superior numbers: and of the Persians there fell as many as two thousand, but of the Carians ten thousand.”
  • The Carians renewed the war with Milesian and allied support, but were defeated again.(Book 5 · §112–125)
    • With: Mausolos Syennesis
    • “Then the Carians dismissed the plans which they were before considering and prepared to renew the war again from the beginning: and when the Persians came to attack them, they engaged with them and fought a battle, and they were worsted yet more completely than before;”

Book 5 · §112–125

  • parent: Mausolos “Pixodaros the son of Mausolos”
  • with Syennesis (Pixodaros was married to Syennesis's unnamed daughter.) “a man of Kindye, who was married to the daughter of the king of the Kilikians, Syennesis.”

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