Darius
Family: Persian · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3
Darius subdued the islands with the Phoenician navy. Later, Tissaphernes, commander of Darius’s son Artaxerxes in the maritime districts, invited the Peloponnesians to join him and promised to maintain their army as he sought help against Amorges.
Relationship record
Life events
- Darius subdued the islands with the Phoenician navy.(Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3 · 📍 the islands)
- “the islands being only left to be subdued by Darius and the Phoenician navy.”
- Tissaphernes invited the Peloponnesians to join him and promised to maintain their army, seeking help against Amorges.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- With: Tissaphernes Artaxerxes Amorges Pissuthnes
- “an ambassador from Tissaphernes, the commander of King Darius, son of Artaxerxes, in the maritime districts, who invited the Peloponnesians to come over, and promised to maintain their army.”
Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3
- with Cambyses (Darius is identified as Cambyses's successor.) “Indeed it was only shortly the Persian war, and the death of Darius the successor of Cambyses, that the Sicilian tyrants and the Corcyraeans acquired any large number of galleys.”
Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 5
- with Aristagoras (Aristagoras fled from Darius.) “Aristagoras, the Milesian (when he fled from King Darius)”
Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1
- child: Artaxerxes “the commander of King Darius, son of Artaxerxes, in the maritime districts”
Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 3
- with Thucydides (Thucydides is identified as the historian of the war.) “And this winter ended, and with it ended the twentieth year of this war of which Thucydides is the historian.”
- with Tissaphernes (The treaty concerned the affairs of Darius, referred to as the King.) “In the thirteenth year of the reign of Darius, while Alexippidas was ephor at Lacedaemon, a convention was concluded in the plain of the Maeander by the Lacedaemonians and their allies with Tissaphernes, Hieramenes, and the sons of Pharnaces, concerning the affairs of the King and of the Lacedaemonians and their allies.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.