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Phratagune (or Phratagone) was a princess of ancient Persia, the only daughter of Artanes, who lived around the 5th century BCE. [1] Phratagune's father gave her in marriage to his brother, her uncle, Darius the Great. This was ostensibly because Artanes had no male heirs and marrying his daughter to his brother, and offering his entire estate ...
Phratagune was a princess of ancient Persia, the only daughter of Artanes, who lived around the 5th century BCE. Phratagune was a princess of ancient Persia, the only ...
Phratagune Phratagune, one of Darius' wives. Hdt. 7.224. Created in electronic form. The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London. John Murray: printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street. In the article on Soranus, we find: "at this present time (1848)" and this date seems to reflect the dates of works cited. 1873 - probably the printing date.
borne to Darius by Phratagune, the daughter of Artanes. Scholars have noted the apparent oddity of Herodotus remarking that he learned the names of the 3003 but then failing to give those names, and indeed some have faulted him for not doing so.4 Yet it is hard to see how such a list
Darius I (Old Persian Dârayavauš): king of ancient Persia, whose reign lasted from 522 to 486. He seized power after killing king Gaumâta, fought a civil war (described in the Behistun inscription ), and was finally able to refound the Achaemenid empire, which had been very loosely organized until then. Darius fought several foreign wars ...
There fell too at the same time very many famous Persians: among them, two sons of Darius, Abrocomes and Hyperanthes, his children by Phratagune, the daughter of Artanes. Artanes was brother of King Darius, being a son of Hystaspes, the son of Arsames; and when he gave his daughter to the king, he made him heir likewise of all his substance ...
