Arsames

Arsames

(Ἀρσάμης).

1. The father of Hystaspes and grandfather of Dareius. (Hdt. 1.209, 7.11, 224.)

Arsames

2. Also called Arsanes, the great grandson of the preceding, and the son of Dareius and Artystone, the daughter of Cyrus, commanded in the army of Xerxes the Arabians and the Aethiopians who lived above Egypt. (Hdt. 7.69.) Aeschylus (Aesch. Pers. 37, 300) speaks of an Arsames, who was the leader of the Egyptians from Memphis in the army of Xerxes.

Arsames

3. An illegitimate son of Artaxerxes Mnemon, murdered by his brother Artaxerxes Ochus. (Plut. Art. 100.30.)

Arsames

4. Supposed on the authority of a coin to have been a king of Armenia about the time of Seleucus II., and conjectured to have been the founder of the city of Arsamosata. (Eckhel, iii. p. 204, &c.)

Arsames Arsames, a Persian officer in Xerxes' army

• son of Darius: Hdt. 7.69

Arsames(2), a Persian

• father of Hystaspes, first mentioned: Hdt. 1.209