Ariabignes
Sign in to saveAriabignes (, ) was one of the sons of the Persian king Darius I and his mother was a daughter of Gobryas (). He participated in the Second Persian invasion of Greece, as one of the four admirals of the fleet of his brother Xerxes I, and was killed in the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC. Ariabignes was the commander of the Carian and Ionian forces.
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- Person.name
- Ariabignes
- Person.image
- William Rainey - Death of the Persian admiral at Salamis (cropped to focus on Ariabignes).jpg
- Person.caption
- Ariabignes' death depicted in William Rainey's Death of the Persian Admiral at Salamis (1910)
- Person.death_date
- September 480 BC
- Person.death_place
- Straits of Salamis, Greece
- Person.father
- Darius I
- Person.relatives
- Xerxes I (brother)Gobryas (grandfather)
- Military person.embed
- yes
- Military person.allegiance
- Achaemenid Empire
- Military person.battles
- Second Persian invasion of Greece, Battle of Salamis
- Military person.rank
- Admiral
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- William Rainey - Death of the Persian admiral at Salamis.jpg
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- date of death
- 0480-01-01
- date of birth
- 0550-00-00
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Ariabignes (, ) was one of the sons of the Persian king Darius I and his mother was a daughter of Gobryas (). He participated in the Second Persian invasion of Greece, as one of the four admirals of the fleet of his brother Xerxes I, and was killed in the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC. Ariabignes was the commander of the Carian and Ionian forces.
==Life== Plutarch calls him, Ariamenes (), and speaks of him as a brave man and the most just of the brothers of Xerxes. The same writer relates that this Ariamenes laid claim to the throne on the death of Darius, as the eldest of his sons, but was opposed by Xerxes, who maintained that he had a right to the crown as the eldest of the sons born after Darius had become king.