Sisamnes

Family: Persian · Role: Royal Judge · First appears: Book 5 · §20–28

Book 5 · §20–28

child: Otanes “This man's father Sisamnes, who had been made one of the Royal Judges, king Cambyses slew, because he had judged a cause unjustly for money, and flayed off all his skin:”
with Cambyses (interaction) “This man's father Sisamnes, who had been made one of the Royal Judges, king Cambyses slew, because he had judged a cause unjustly for money, and flayed off all his skin:”
with Otanes (Otanes was appointed to succeed his father as judge.) “then after he had torn away the skin he cut leathern thongs out of it and stretched them across the seat where Sisamnes had been wont to sit to give judgment; and having stretched them in the seat, Cambyses appointed the son of that Sisamnes whom he had slain and flayed, to be judge instead of his father, enjoining him to remember in what seat he was sitting to give judgment.”

parent: Hydarnes “and of the Arians Sisamnes the son of Hydarnes was in command.”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.