Megabates

Megabates ( Greek: Μεγαβάτης; † after 478 BC ) was a military commander and governor ( satrap ) in the Persian empire of the Achaemenids. He was a younger son of Megabazos. Herodotus reported that he (and with him his family ) the Achämenidendynastie belonged, Great King Darius I was his cousin.

Megabates was 500/499 BC Artaphernes appointed by the commander of a fleet of 200 ships, with which he should support the tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, in the conquest of Naxos. However, this enterprise failed after four months of siege because of a personal dislike of the two men together. The led so far that Megabates supported the besieged Naxer secretly against Aristagoras their defenses.

Megabates followed his older brother after Oebares as governor of Phrygia with the residence Daskyleion. Herodotus reported for the year 478 BC, that the Hellenic Federal commander Pausanias, who had just taken Byzantion to marry a daughter of the Megabates intended to subsequently submit to the Persian king Greece. According to Thucydides, however, Pausanias had the marriage offer made ​​directly to the Great King Xerxes I, was to ask for the hand of a royal princess, after Megabates have been replaced by Artabazus in his office.

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  • Herodotus 5.32-35; 6:32
  • Thucydides 1128-129
  • Man
  • Persian antiquity
  • Satrap
  • Born in the 6th century BC
  • Died in the 5th century BC
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