Herodotus' Histories

Alazeir

Family: Barcan · Role: king of Barca and father-in-law of Arkesilaos · First appears: Book 4 · §159–166

Life events

  • Men of Barca and Kyrenian exiles killed Arkesilaos and his father-in-law Alazeir.(Book 4 · §159–166 · 📍 Barca)
    • With: Arkesilaos son of Battos the Lame
    • “to him he came, and men of Barca together with certain of the exiles from Kyrene, perceiving him going about in the market-place, killed him, and also besides him his father-in-law Alazeir.”

Book 4 · §159–166

  • married with Arkesilaos son of Battos the Lame “Now he had to wife a kinswoman of his own, the daughter of the king of Barca whose name was Alazeir”
  • with Arkesilaos son of Battos the Lame (Alazeir was his father-in-law.) “men of Barca together with certain of the exiles from Kyrene, perceiving him going about in the market-place, killed him, and also besides him his father-in-law Alazeir.”

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