Hydarnes

Also known as: the Mede · Family: Persian · Role: military commander · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 4

Life events

• Leonidas is defeated at Thermopylæ after Hydarnes leads the Persian army around the Greek flank.(Book 3 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Thermopylæ)
  • With: Leonidas Xerxes
  • “and, when Leonidas was conquered in this way, the barbarians passed into Greece over his dead body.”

Book 3 · Chapter 4

• enemies with Leonidas “the army of Hydarnes so as to fall on the Greek flank, and, when Leonidas was conquered in this way, the barbarians passed into Greece over his dead body.”

Book 10 · Chapter 22

• enemies with Leonidas (Hydarnes attacked Leonidas’ forces.) “the other through the district of the Ænianes is easier for an army, and is the way by which Hydarnes the Mede formerly turned the flank of Leonidas’ forces.”

Also listed in Persian — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.