Artaphrenes
historical figure · 1 work · 6 mentions · 14 anchored passages
Artaphrenes son of Artaphrenes · Artaphrenes son of Hystaspes · Artaphrenes the viceroy · Artaphrenes, the governor of Sardis
in the texts
The Histories
Persian viceroy of Sardis and brother of Darius, persuaded by Aristagoras to fund the expedition against Naxos.
Artaphrenes is my friend, and he is not only Hystaspes ' son and brother to Darius the king but also governor of all the coastal peoples of Asia.
This, then, is what Darius said, and after appointing Artaphrenes, his father's son, to be viceroy of Sardis, he rode away to Susa, taking Histiaeus with him.
Aristagoras came to Sardis and told Artaphrenes that Naxos was indeed an island of no great size, but that it was otherwise a beautiful and noble island lying near Ionia.