Aiakes

Family: Samian · Role: father of Polycrates · First appears: Book 2 · §175–182

Life events

Amasis dedicated two wooden figures of himself to Hera at Samos because of his guest-friendship with Polycrates.(Book 2 · §175–182 · 📍 Samos)
- With: Amasis Polycrates
- “Now at Samos he dedicated offerings because of the guest-friendship between himself and Polycrates the son of Aiakes”
The Ionian leaders adopt Histiaios's opinion instead of Miltiades's.(Book 4 · §135–142)
- With: Histiaios Daphnis Hippoclos Herophantos Metrodoros Aristagoras of Kyzicos Ariston Strattis Laodamas Aristagoras of Kyme
- “forthwith all turned to this opinion, whereas at the first they were adopting that of Miltiades.”
The Ionians resolve to break part of the bridge as a deceptive show of compliance.(Book 4 · §135–142 · 📍 Ister)
- With: Histiaios Daphnis Hippoclos Herophantos Metrodoros Aristagoras of Kyzicos Ariston Strattis Laodamas Aristagoras of Kyme
- “they resolved to add to it deeds and words as follows, namely to break up that part of the bridge which was on the side towards the Scythians, to break it up, I say, for a distance equal to the range of an arrow,”

child: Polycrates “Now at Samos he dedicated offerings because of the guest-friendship between himself and Polycrates the son of Aiakes;”

child: Polycrates “Now while Cambyses was marching upon Egypt, the Lacedemonians also had made an expedition against Samos and against Polycrates the son of Aiakes, who had risen against the government and obtained rule over Samos.”

child: Syloson “Syloson the son of Aiakes and brother of Polycrates, an exile from Samos.”

child: Syloson (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.”

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