Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In ancient sources, Hystaspes is sometimes considered as identical with Vishtaspa (the Avestan name for Hystapes), an early patron of Zoroaster. [8]The name of Hystaspes occurs in the inscriptions at Persepolis and in the Behistun Inscription, where the full lineage of Darius the Great is given: [10]
Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid. King Darius says: This is the kingdom which I hold, from the Sacae who are beyond Sogdia to Kush, and from Sind (Old Persian: ๐๐ก๐ญ๐ข๐บ, "Hidauv", locative of "Hiduš", i.e. "Indus valley") to Lydia (Old Persian: "Spardâ") – [this is] what ...
Darius (Old Persian: ๐ญ๐ ๐ผ๐น๐บ๐ข๐ Dฤrayavaสฐuš; Ancient Greek: Δαρεแฟος Dareios; c. 485 – 465 BCE), was crown prince of the Persian Empire. He was the eldest son of the Persian king Xerxes I and his wife Amestris. His younger brothers were Hystaspes and Artaxerxes, and his younger sisters were Rhodogune and Amytis.
Darius the Great (Darius I Hystaspes), c. 550–486 BCE. This historically known Darius was the third Persian emperor, and an important figure for Jews in the early Persian period because of his role in the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. [22]
6. 32) identifies Zoroaster's patron with another Vishtaspa, better known as Hystaspes in English, the (late-6th century BCE) father of Darius I. The sixth century Agathias was more ambivalent, observing that it wasn't clear to him whether the name of Zoroaster's patron referred to the father of Darius or to another Hystaspes (ii. 24).
Hystaspes (father of Darius I) (fl. 550 BCE), satrap of Bactria and possibly also of Fฤrs, and father of Darius the Great; Hystaspes (son of Darius I) (fl. c. 480 BCE), son of Darius the Great; Hystaspes (son of Xerxes I) (fl. c. 460 BCE), son of Xerxes I of Persia
I am Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries containing all kinds of men, king in this great earth far and wide, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid, a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, having Aryan lineage.
Artabanus was a son of Hystaspes, and brother of Darius I (Achaemenid lineage according to Darius the Great in the Behistun inscription). Artabanus and the Ghost. According to Herodotus, Artabanus saw a ghost enjoining him to allow the invasion of Greece. [1] Artabanus was a son of Hystaspes, and therefore brother of Darius I as well as uncle ...