Prexaspes
Family: Persian · Role: trusted man of Cambyses · First appears: Book 3 · §29–35
Life events
- Cambyses sent Prexaspes to kill Smerdis, who was slain at Susa.(Book 3 · §29–35 · 📍 Susa)
- Cambyses shot and killed Prexaspes’s son to prove his marksmanship.(Book 3 · §29–35)
- With: Cambyses
- “Having thus said he drew his bow and hit the boy; and when the boy had fallen down”
- The seven pledged faith to one another and began deliberating how to kill the Magian.(Book 3 · §71–77)
- The Magians secured Prexaspes's pledge to conceal their deception and tried to enlist him as their ally.(Book 3 · §71–77)
- “After Prexaspes had promised to do this, the Magians, having persuaded him so far, proposed to him a second thing”
- Prexaspes publicly revealed that he had killed Smerdis and that the Magians ruled.(Book 3 · §71–77 · 📍 a tower)
- Prexaspes ended his life by falling headfirst from the tower.(Book 3 · §71–77 · 📍 a tower)
- “Then he made imprecation of many evils on the Persians, if they did not win back again the power and take vengeance upon the Magians, and upon that he let himself fall down from the tower head foremost.”
Book 3 · §29–35
- with Cambyses (son of Cyrus) (Cambyses sends Prexaspes to kill Smerdis.) “he sent Prexaspes to Persia, the man whom of all the Persians he trusted most, with command to slay him”
- with Smerdis (interaction) “He accordingly went up to Susa and slew Smerdis”
Book 3 · §71–77
- with Smerdis (Prexaspes killed Smerdis.) “He proceeded to say how he had himself slain Smerdis the son of Cyrus, being compelled by Cambyses”
Book 7 · §86–99
- parent: Aspathines “Of the naval force the following were commanders,--Ariabignes the son of Dareios, Prexaspes the son of Aspathines, Megabazos the son of Megabates, and Achaimenes the son of Dareios;”
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