Syloson

Family: Samian · Role: brother of Polycrates · First appears: Book 3 · §36–41

Life events

Polycrates drove Syloson out and took possession of all Samos.(Book 3 · §36–41 · 📍 Samos)
- With: Polycrates
- “and the younger, namely Syloson, he drove out, and so obtained possession of the whole of Samos.”
Syloson gave Dareios his flame-coloured mantle without payment.(Book 3 · §135–141 · 📍 Memphis)
- With: Cambyses
- “I will not sell this for any sum, but I will give it thee for nothing, if, as it appears, it must be thine at all costs.”
Oroites killed Polycrates, and Samos came into the possession of their former slave.(Book 3 · §135–141 · 📍 Samos)
- With: Oroites Polycrates
- “which now that my brother Polycrates has been slain by Oroites is possessed by our slave.”
Dareios agreed to restore Samos to Syloson without bloodshed or enslavement.(Book 3 · §135–141 · 📍 Susa)
- With: Dareios
- “To me, O king, give neither gold nor silver, but recover and give to me my fatherland Samos, which now that my brother Polycrates has been slain by Oroites is possessed by our slave. This give to me without bloodshed or selling into slavery.”
Dareios sent Otanes to lead an expedition to fulfill Syloson’s request.(Book 3 · §135–141)
- With: Dareios Otanes
- “Dareios having heard this prepared to send an expedition with Otanes as commander of it, who had been one of the seven, charging him to accomplish for Syloson all that which he had requested.”

siblings with Polycrates “At first he had divided the State into three parts and had given a share to his brothers Pantagnotos and Syloson;”

siblings with Polycrates “Syloson the son of Aiakes and brother of Polycrates, an exile from Samos.”
parent: Aiakes “Syloson the son of Aiakes and brother of Polycrates, an exile from Samos.”
with Dareios (Dareios offers Syloson a reward in return for the earlier gift.) “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.”

child: Aiakes (son of Syloson) “Now Aiakes, from whom the Samians accepted the proposals, was the son of Syloson, the son of Aiakes, and being despot of Samos he had been deprived of his rule by Aristagoras the Milesian, like the other despots of Ionia.”
parent: Aiakes (The older Aiakes is identified as Syloson's father.) “Now Aiakes, from whom the Samians accepted the proposals, was the son of Syloson, the son of Aiakes, and being despot of Samos he had been deprived of his rule by Aristagoras the Milesian, like the other despots of Ionia.”

child: Aiakes (son of Syloson) “the Persians restored to Samos Aiakes the son of Syloson”

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