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ARTAPHERNES , more correctly ARTAPHRENES, See also:

brother of See also:Darius Hystaspis, and See also:satrap of See also:Sardis. It was he who received the See also:embassy from See also:Athens sent probably by See also:Cleisthenes (q.v.) in 507 B.C., and subsequently warned the Athenians to receive back the " See also:tyrant " Hippias. Subsequently he took an important See also:part in suppressing the Ionian revolt (see See also:IONIA, See also:ARISTAGORAS, HIsTIAEEs),and after the See also:war compelled the cities to make agreements by which all See also:differences were to be settled by reference. He also measured out their territories in parasangs and assessed their tributes accordingly (See also:Herod. vi. 42). In 492 he was superseded in his satrapy by Mardonius (See also:Herodotus v. 25, 30-32, 35, &c.; Diod. Sic. x. 25). His son, of the same name, was appointed (49o), together with Datis, to take command of the expedition sent by Darius to punish Athens and See also:Eretria for their See also:share in the Ionian revolt. After the defeat of See also:Marathon he returned to See also:Asia. In the expedition of See also:Xerxes, ten years later, he was in command of the Lydians and Mysians (Herod. vi.

94, 119; vil. 4, Aesch. Persae, 21). See also:

Aeschylus in his See also:list of See also:Persian See also:kings (Persae, 775 ff.),which is quite unhistorical, mentions two kings with the name Artaphrenes, who may have been See also:developed out of these two Persian commanders. (En.

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