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In Herodotus’ account the “usurpers” are called Patizeithēs and Smerdis. As mentioned earlier, “Smerdis” represents the graecized form of the name Bardi-ya (Σ-μέρδις < Μάρδος < Bạrdiya- ) and “Patizeithēs” might refer to the political title, *pati-xšāyaθiya-, that we assume belonged to the imperial prince himself.
Dec 15, 1988 · Darius in his Behistun inscription (DB 1.30-33) says that Cambyses, after becoming king but before his departure to Egypt, slew Bardiya and that the assassination was kept a secret from the people. However, according to Herodotus (3.10), Bardiya (Smerdis) went to Egypt with Cambyses and spent some time there.
Bardiya or Smerdis, also named as Tanyoxarces by Ctesias, was a son of Cyrus the Great and the younger brother of Cambyses II, both Persian kings. There are sharply divided views on his life. Bardiya either ruled the Achaemenid Empire for a few months in 522 BCE, or was impersonated by a magus called Gaumata, whose name is given by Ctesias as ...
Dec 15, 2003 · Herodotus connects the beginning of Darius’s reign with a deep break in the history of Persian royalty. He describes the rule of the Magus and palace administrator Patizeithes, as well as that of his brother, the false Smerdis, as an attempt at usurpation, which he equates with the return of foreign rule by the Medes (cf. 3.63.4, 65.6).
A Detective Story of Ancient Times: The Reconstruction by Dya Gershevitch. by SlMONETTA SCHIENA. The false, or the true, Smerdis was the controversial character who sat on the throne of Persia for seven months, after Cambyses and before Darius, from March. to September 522 B.C. (Dandamaev 1989a: 786).
By: Leon Legrain. Originally Published in 1923. View PDF. WHILE Cambyses led the Persian Army in Egypt, he was frightened by an obscure oracle at Buto, and sent back one of his officers to murder secretly his own brother Smerdis, whom he feared as a competitor.
Jan 3, 2021 · In the Elamite version of the Behistun (Bīsotūn) inscription he is called Pirtiya, but the Akkadian version and private documents from Babylonia have the Median form Barziya. He is called Smerdis by Herodotus, Mardos by Aeschylus, Mergis by Justin, and Merphis by Hellanicus.
