Cambyses

Family: Persian · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3

During the reigns of Cyrus and his son Cambyses, the Ionians attained great naval strength. Darius succeeded Cambyses; the Sicilian tyrants and the Corcyraeans acquired many galleys only shortly before the Persian war and Darius’s death.

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Life events

• The Ionians attained great naval strength during the reigns of Cyrus and Cambyses.(Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3)
  • With: Cyrus
  • “Subsequently the Ionians attained to great naval strength in the reign of Cyrus, the first king of the Persians, and of his son Cambyses”

Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 3

• parent: Cyrus “Subsequently the Ionians attained to great naval strength in the reign of Cyrus, the first king of the Persians, and of his son Cambyses, and while they were at war with the former commanded for a while the Ionian sea.”
• with Darius (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.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.