Mardonius
historical figure · 5 works · 15 mentions · 48 anchored passages
Mardonius son of Gobryas
in the texts
The Histories
Persian general and Darius's son-in-law who led the expedition that deposed Ionian tyrants, installed democracies, and suffered disaster at Athos and in Macedonia.
Mardonius deposed all the Ionian tyrants and set up democracies in their cities.
After conquering them, he led his army away homewards, since the Brygi had dealt a heavy blow to his army and Athos an even heavier blow to his fleet.
as for Mardonius and his land army, while they were encamped in Macedonia, the Brygi of Thrace attacked them by night and killed many of them, wounding Mardonius himself.
Against Timocrates
The historical owner associated with a valuable scimitar kept as a victory prize.
Was it not he who, being appointed treasurer at the Acropolis, stole from that place those prizes of victory which our ancestors carried off from the barbarians, the throne with silver feet, and Mardonius’s scimitar, which weighed three hundred darics?
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The Persian king's general commanding the Persian forces defeated at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.
And they fought together with you and the others who were seeking to save the freedom of Greece in the final battle at Plataea against Mardonius, the King’s general, and deposited the liberty thus secured as a common prize for all the Greeks.
Orations
Persian general whose captured scimitar is cited as a prized Athenian trophy.
For they possess as a far more august and excellent offering the scimitar of Mardonius and the shields of the Laconians once captured at Pylos, than the propylaea of the Acropolis and the Olympieum, built at a cost of more than ten thousand talents.
The Rights of War and Peace
Persian commander in Herodotus, quoted as criticizing the Greeks for warring rather than negotiating.
” Mardonius, in the Polyhymnia of Herodotus, blames the Grecians, who, being united in one language, might settle their quarrels by messengers of peace, by heralds, and negotiations, rather than by war.