Artaÿctes
Family: Persian · Role: governor of Sestos · First appears: Book 7 · §29–38
Life events
- Xanthippos and the Athenians captured Artaÿctes and nailed him alive to a board.(Book 7 · §29–38 · 📍 Sestos)
- With: Xanthippos
- “the Athenians under the command of Xanthippos the son of Ariphron, having taken Artaÿctes a Persian, who was the governor of Sestos, nailed him alive to a board with hands and feet extended”
- Ariomardos commanded the Moschoi and Tibarenians; Artaÿctes commanded the Macronians and Mossynoicoi.(Book 7 · §70–85)
- Artaÿctes took Protesilaos’ offerings after deceiving Xerxes into granting him the sacred enclosure.(Book 9 · §111–119 · 📍 Elaius)
- With: Protesilaos Xerxes
- “So when the things had been given him, he brought them from Elaius to Sestos, and he sowed the sacred enclosure for crops and occupied it as his own”
- Artaÿctes escaped Sestos, was overtaken near Aigospotamoi, and was captured alive.(Book 9 · §111–119 · 📍 Sestos)
- “Artaÿctes with his companions, who started on their flight later and were overtaken at a little distance above Aigospotamoi, defended themselves for a considerable time and were some of them killed and others taken alive”
- Artaÿctes offered payment for his life and his son’s, but Xanthippos refused.(Book 9 · §120–122)
- With: Xanthippos
- “Thus he engaged to do, but he did not prevail upon the commander Xanthippos;”
- Artaÿctes was hanged, and his son was stoned to death before him.(Book 9 · §120–122)
- With: Protesilaos
- “there they nailed him to boards and hung him up; and they stoned his son to death before the eyes of Artaÿctes himself..”
- Cyrus rejected Artembares’s proposal to move the Persians to better land.(Book 9 · §120–122)
- With: Artembares Cyrus Astyages
- “Cyrus, hearing this and not being surprised at the proposal, bade them do so if they would; but he exhorted them and bade them prepare in that case to be no longer rulers but subjects;”
Book 7 · §29–38
- with Xanthippos (Xanthippos commanded the Athenians who captured Artaÿctes.) “the Athenians under the command of Xanthippos the son of Ariphron, having taken Artaÿctes a Persian, who was the governor of Sestos, nailed him alive to a board with hands and feet extended”
Book 7 · §70–85
- parent: Cherasmis “the Macronians and Mossynoicoi under Artaÿctes the son of Cherasmis, who was governor of Sestos on the Hellespont.”
Book 9 · §111–119
- employer: Xerxes “And of the province Artaÿctes was despot, as governor under Xerxes, a Persian, but a man of desperate and reckless character”
Book 9 · §120–122
- enemies with Protesilaos (Artaÿctes acknowledges that he wronged Protesilaos.) “Protesilaos who dwells at Elaius signifies thereby that though he is dead and his body is dried like those fish, yet he has power given him by the gods to exact vengeance from the man who does him wrong.”
- with Xanthippos (Xanthippos refused Artaÿctes's proposed ransom and favored his execution.) “Thus he engaged to do, but he did not prevail upon the commander Xanthippos; for the people of Elaius desiring to take vengeance for Protesilaos asked that he might be put to death, and the inclination of the commander himself tended to the same conclusion.”
- elder kin: Artembares (Artembares is identified as Artaÿctes's forefather.) “Now a forefather of this Artaÿctes who was hung up, was that Artembares who set forth to the Persians a proposal which they took up and brought before Cyrus, being to this effect:”
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