Herodotus' Histories

Artobazanes

Family: Persian · Role: son of Dareios · First appears: Book 7 · §1–7

Life events

  • Artobazanes and Xerxes disputed which of them should inherit the Persian throne.(Book 7 · §1–7)
    • With: Dareios Xerxes
    • “there arose a great strife among his sons about the supreme power; and they said that he must not make his expeditions until he had designated one of them to be king”

Book 7 · §1–7

  • parent: Dareios (Dareios is the parent.) “of the first the eldest was Artobazanes”
  • siblings with Xerxes (They are sons of Dareios by different mothers.) “of the first the eldest was Artobazanes, and of those who had been born later, Xerxes.”
  • siblings with Achaimenes “of the first the eldest was Artobazanes, and of those who had been born later, Xerxes.”

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