Achaemenes (satrap)

Achaemenes ( Greek: Ἀχαιμένης [ Achaemenes ] ) was a Persian prince of the dynasty of the Achaemenids.

Life

According to Herodotus Achaemenes was named after the founder of the dynasty Achaemenes, a son of the Great King Darius I and his wife Atossa, which he was a brother of the later Great King Xerxes I.. According to Ctesias, but he was a son of Xerxes I and his wife Amestris and thus a brother of Artaxerxes I.

After Xerxes had conquered Egypt 484 BC, he sat there Achaemenes as his governor ( satrap ), in order to end the uprising of the Egyptians after the death of Cambyses II. He did 484 BC and ruled Egypt after under strict guidance.

Achaemenes took part in the Persian Wars, under the direction of Xerxes I. and was a leader of the Egyptian fleet. After the battle of Thermopylae, the former Spartan king Demaratos to have recommended the Great King, to send 300 ships to Laconia to distract the Spartans from assisting the Athenians. Achaemenes should have refuted this argument and get the great king to let land and Seeheer parallel, so that they can support each other. This did Xerxes then. Achaemenes died with his entire army in Papremis, near the present-day Port Said, at a battle in 463 BC with the revolting Inaros II, a Libyan prince.