Sataspes

Role: son of Teaspis · First appears: Book 4 · §42–48

Life events

• Sataspes outraged the daughter of Zopyros.(Book 4 · §42–48)
  • “For this man had outraged a daughter of Zopyros the son of Megabyzos, a virgin;”
• Teaspis secured Sataspes’s life on the condition that he sail around Libya.(Book 4 · §42–48)
  • With: Xerxes Teaspis
  • “the mother of Sataspes, who was a sister of Dareios, entreated for his life, saying that she would herself lay upon him a greater penalty than Xerxes; for he should be compelled (she said) to sail round Libya, until in sailing round it he came to the Arabian gulf. So then Xerxes having agreed upon these terms,”
• Sataspes set out from Egypt to sail around Libya but turned back before completing the task.(Book 4 · §42–48 · 📍 Egypt)
  • “Sataspes went to Egypt, and obtaining a ship and sailors from the Egyptians, he sailed to the Pillars of Heracles; and having sailed through them and turned the point of Libya which is called the promontory of Soloeis, he sailed on towards the South. Then after he had passed over much sea in many months, as there was needed ever more and more voyaging, he turned about and sailed back again to Egypt:”
• Xerxes impaled Sataspes for failing to complete the appointed task.(Book 4 · §42–48)
  • With: Xerxes
  • “Xerxes however did not believe that he was speaking the truth, and since he had not performed the appointed task, he impaled him, inflicting upon him the penalty pronounced before.”

Book 4 · §42–48

• parent: Teaspis “as to Sataspes the son of Teaspis the Achaimenid”
• with Zopyros (elder) (Sataspes had outraged Zopyros's daughter.) “For this man had outraged a daughter of Zopyros the son of Megabyzos, a virgin;”
• with Xerxes (Xerxes executed Sataspes by impalement.) “Xerxes however did not believe that he was speaking the truth, and since he had not performed the appointed task, he impaled him, inflicting upon him the penalty pronounced before.”
• siblings with Dareios “the mother of Sataspes, who was a sister of Dareios”

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