Ariomardus was the name of a number of people from classical antiquity:
* A son of the Persian King
Darius I
Darius I ( peo, 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 ; grc-gre, Δαρεῖος ; – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his ...
and his wife
Parmys
Parmys (Old Persian ''(H)uparviyā'', Elamite ''Uparmiya'') was a Persian princess, the only daughter of Bardiya (Smerdis), son of Cyrus the Great.Herodotus, '' Histories'', book 3, chapter 88section 3 She was the granddaughter of Cyrus the Great ...
.
[Lendering, J:]
Parmys
, in http://www.livius.org He attended
Xerxes I
Xerxes I ( peo, 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 ; grc-gre, Ξέρξης ; – August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, ruling from 486 to 465 BC. He was the son and successor of ...
into Greece, being in command of the
Moschi and
Tibareni
The Tibareni ( ka, ტიბარენები, Tibarenebi; Greek: Τιβαρηνοί and Τιβαρανοί;) were a people residing on the coast of ancient Pontus referred to in Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo and other classical authors. The Ti ...
.
* The brother of Artuphius, who commanded the
Caspii in the army of Xerxes I.
* The ruler of
Thebes in
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
, and one of the commanders of the Egyptians in the army of Xerxes.
Aeschylus
Aeschylus (, ; grc-gre, Αἰσχύλος ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek ...
, ''The Persians
''The Persians'' ( grc, Πέρσαι, ''Persai'', Latinised as ''Persae'') is an ancient Greek tragedy written during the Classical period of Ancient Greece by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus. It is the second and only surviving part of a now other ...
'' 38, 313.
References
Further reading
The history of Herodotus, Volume 2at
Project Gutenberg
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Persian people of the Greco-Persian Wars
5th-century BC Iranian people
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