Oiobazos

Family: Persian · Role: father of three sons · First appears: Book 4 · §78–84

Life events

• Oiobazos escaped from Sestos but was caught and sacrificed by the Apsinthian Thracians.(Book 9 · §111–119 · 📍 Thrace)
  • “Oiobazos, as he was escaping into Thrace, was caught by the Apsinthian Thracians and sacrificed to their native god Pleistoros with their rites”

Book 4 · §78–84

• friends with Dareios “and Dareios said that as he was a friend and made a reasonable request, he would leave behind all the sons.”
• with Dareios (Dareios ordered Oiobazos's sons put to death.) “So Oiobazos was greatly rejoiced, supposing that his sons had been freed from service, but Dareios commanded those who had the charge of such things to put to death all the sons of Oiobazos.”

Book 7 · §57–69

• child: Siromitres “of these the commanders were, Arsamenes the son of Dareios of the Utians and Mycans, and of the Paricanians Siromitres the son of Oiobazos.”

Book 9 · §111–119

• with Pleistoros (Oiobazos was sacrificed to Pleistoros.) “Oiobazos, as he was escaping into Thrace, was caught by the Apsinthian Thracians and sacrificed to their native god Pleistoros with their rites”

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