marriages: Darius married Gobryas' daughter, and Gobryas married Darius' sister. Furthermore, Mardonius married Darius' daughter Artozostra. Thus, Darius the...
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to the end of Darius's reign. The predecessor of Darius: Bardiya/ Gaumata Darius was the eldest of five sons to Hystaspes. The identity of his mother is...
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Mardonius may refer to: Mardonius (nephew of Darius I), Persian commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece Mardonius (philosopher), tutor and...
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Achaemenid Empire (redirect from Teispes (I))
Reconstruction of the Palace of Darius at Susa. The palace served as a model for Persepolis. Lion on a decorative panel from Darius I the Great's palace...
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brother-in-law, Mardonius, supported by a strong party of exiled Greeks, to take revenge for the defeat that Darius I suffered at the hands of the Greeks at...
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Odrysian kingdom (redirect from Kingdom of Odrysia)
peacefully, except of the Getae, who were defeated. More expeditions under the generals Megabazus and Mardonius as well as king Xerxes I followed, even though...
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Macedonia (ancient kingdom) (redirect from Kingdom of Macedon)
the cavalry charge at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, forcing the Persian king Darius III and his army to flee. Darius III, despite having superior numbers...
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Mardonius re-subjugated Thrace and made Macedon a full part of Persia. The war eventually turned out in defeat, however. Darius' successor Xerxes I launched...
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Persians into Bay of Salamis, Xerxes loses and goes home, leaves behind Mardonius. 480 Possibly simultaneous with the Battle of Salamis, Battle of Himera between...
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Classical Greece (redirect from Causes of the Peloponnesian War)
In addition, a fleet of around 1,200 ships that accompanied Mardonius on the expedition was wrecked by a storm off the coast of Mount Athos. Later, the...
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Themistocles (category Achaemenid satraps of Lydia)
Asia with part of the army, leaving his general Mardonius to attempt to complete the conquest. Mardonius wintered in Boeotia and Thessaly, and the Athenians...
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figures such as Xerxes I, Leonidas I, Demaratus, Inaros II, Pausanias, Mardonius, Artabanus, Megabyzus, and Miltiades. Although the three campaigns are...
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Classical Anatolia (redirect from History of Anatolia (700 BC–400 AD))
suppression of the revolt between 492 and 486 BC under Mardonius and later by Darius the Great. From the Greek perspective the first war was when Darius assembled...
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Amyntas I of Macedon (r. 547 – 498 BC) and his successor Alexander I, especially due to the aid given by the latter to the Persian commander Mardonius at the...
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general, Mardonius, who with many Theban aristocrats subsequently perished at the Battle of Plataea. It is possible that Pindar spent much of this time...
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