Hystaspes (father of Dareios)
Family: Persian · Role: son of Arsames · First appears: Book 1 · §183–189
Hystaspes was the son of Arsames and the father of Dareios, Artabanos, Artaphrenes and Artanes. At Araxes, he crossed toward Persia “to keep watch over his son Dareios for Cyrus.” In Book 3, Dareios was among the seven who pledged faith to one another and began deliberating how to kill the Magian.
By the battle at Thermopylai, Dareios’s sons Abrocomes and Hyperanthes, born to him and Phratagune, fell in combat; Artanes was their maternal grandfather.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hystaspes crossed the Araxes toward Persia to keep watch over Dareios.(Book 1 · §204–211 · 📍 Araxes)
- The seven pledged faith to one another and began deliberating how to kill the Magian.(Book 3 · §71–77)
- Abrocomes and Hyperanthes, sons of Dareios and Phratagune, fell in the battle.(Book 7 · §215–224 · 📍 Thermopylai)
- With: Abrocomes Hyperanthes Dareios Phratagune Artanes Arsames (son of Ariaramnes)
- “Moreover of the Persians there fell here, besides many others of note, especially two sons of Dareios, Abrocomes and Hyperanthes, born to Dareios of Phratagune the daughter of Artanes”
Book 1 · §183–189
- child: Dareios “Against this statue Dareios the son of Hystaspes formed a design, but”
Book 1 · §204–211
- parent: Arsames (son of Ariaramnes) “Of Hystaspes the son of Arsames, who was a man of the Achaimenid clan”
- child: Dareios “the eldest of the sons of Hystaspes having upon his shoulders wings”
Book 3 · §65–70
- child: Dareios “Dareios the son of Hystaspes arrived at Susa”
Book 3 · §71–77
- child: Dareios “Son of Hystaspes, thou art the scion of a noble stock, and thou art showing thyself, as it seems, in no way inferior to thy father”
Book 3 · §83–90
- child: Dareios “So Dareios the son of Hystaspes had been declared king;”
Book 3 · §135–141
- child: Dareios (Dareios is identified as Hystaspes's son.) “Therefore I will give thee in return gold and silver in abundance, that thou mayest not ever repent that thou didst render a service to Dareios the son of Hystaspes.”
Book 4 · §78–84
- child: Artabanos “Artabanos, the son of Hystaspes and brother of Dareios, urged him by no means to make the march against the Scythians,”
Book 4 · §85–94
- child: Dareios “The head-springs of the river Tearos give the best and fairest water of all rivers; and to them came leading an army against the Scythians the best and fairest of all men, Dareios the son of Hystaspes, of the Persians and of all the Continent king.”
Book 5 · §29–35
- child: Artaphrenes “Artaphrenes is my friend: now Artaphrenes, ye must know, is a son of Hystaspes and brother of Dareios the king”
Book 5 · §70–77
- child: Artaphrenes “Artaphrenes the son of Hystaspes, the governor of Sardis”
Book 6 · §91–100
- child: Dareios “in the time of Dareios the son of Hystaspes and Xerxes the son of Dareios and Artoxerxes the son of Xerxes”
Book 7 · §1–7
- with Dareios (Hystaspes is Dareios's father.) “Dareios the son of Hystaspes”
- child: Dareios “Dareios the son of Hystaspes”
Book 7 · §10–12
- child: Artabanos “then Artabanos the son of Hystaspes, being father's brother to Xerxes and having reliance upon that, spoke as follows:”
- child: Dareios “for I would I might not be descended from Dareios, the son of Hystaspes, the son of Arsames, the son of Ariaramnes, the son of Teïspes, or from Cyrus,”
- parent: Arsames (son of Ariaramnes) “for I would I might not be descended from Dareios, the son of Hystaspes, the son of Arsames, the son of Ariaramnes, the son of Teïspes, or from Cyrus,”
Book 7 · §215–224
- child: Dareios “now Artanes was the brother of king Dareios and the son of Hystaspes, the son of Arsames;”
- parent: Arsames (son of Ariaramnes) “now Artanes was the brother of king Dareios and the son of Hystaspes, the son of Arsames;”
- child: Artanes “now Artanes was the brother of king Dareios and the son of Hystaspes, the son of Arsames;”
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