Spargapises
Family: Massagetai · Role: son of Tomyris · First appears: Book 1 · §204–211
Life events
- The Persians captured Spargapises after defeating the Massagetai who had attacked Cyrus’s men.(Book 1 · §204–211)
- With: Cyrus
- “Then the Persians came upon them and slew many of them, and took alive many more even than they slew, and among these the son of the queen Tomyris, who was leading the army of the Massagetai; and his name was Spargapises.”
- After Cyrus released him from his chains, Spargapises put himself to death.(Book 1 · §212–216)
- With: Cyrus
- “and then so soon as he was loosed and had got power over his hands he put himself to death.”
Book 1 · §204–211
- parent: Tomyris “and among these the son of the queen Tomyris, who was leading the army of the Massagetai; and his name was Spargapises.”
Book 1 · §212–216
- parent: Tomyris (Tomyris is Spargapises's mother.) “the son of the queen Tomyris, Spargapises”
- with Cyrus (Cyrus overcame Spargapises by craft.) “because setting a snare, I say, with such a drug as this thou didst overcome my son, and not by valour in fight.”
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