Hydarnes (Old Persian: 𐎻𐎡𐎭𐎼𐎴, romanized: Vidṛna), also known as Hydarnes the Elder, was a Persian nobleman, who was one of the seven conspirators who overthrew the Pseudo-Smerdis.[1] His name is the Greek transliteration of the Old Persian name Vidṛna, which may have meant "he who knows the guilt/wrong".[1]
He was seemingly good friends with Aspathines, who invited him to join the conspiracy,[1] which included the noblemen Intaphernes, Otanes, Gobryas, Megabyzus, and the Achaemenid prince Darius, who was its leader.[2] For his services, Hydarnes was seemingly given the Achaemenid satrapy of Armenia as a semi-hereditary fief, since his descendants governed it until the Hellenistic period.[1] Orontes I (died 344 BC), the ancestor of the Orontid dynasty, was descended from Hydarnes.[3] According to some Persepolis tablets, Hydarnes served as the satrap of Media under Darius.[4]
Hydarnes was survived by two sons, Hydarnes the Younger and Sisamnes, who both served as commanders under Darius' son and successor, Xerxes I (r. 486–465 BC).[1]
Hydarnes II (Old Persian: 𐎻𐎡𐎭𐎼𐎴, romanized: Vidṛna), also known as Hydarnes the Younger (by contrast with his father Hydarnes the Old) was a Persian...
(August 11), a Malian Greek traitor named Ephialtes led the Persian general Hydarnes by a mountain track to the rear of the Greeks. At that point Leonidas sent...
that Hydarnes may have been given overall command of an enhanced force including what was left of the Immortals; according to Diodorus, Hydarnes had a...
married Stateira, the daughter of the Persian nobleman Hydarnes, who was descended from Hydarnes, one of the seven Persian conspirators who overthrew the...
later murder him. Greater Armenia was ruled by an Orontid descendant of Hydarnes, the last Orontid ruler of Greater Armenia (Strabo xi.14.15); he was apparently...
his ancestry went back to Hydarnes. The Achaemenid satrapy of Armenia seems to have been a semi-hereditary fief of Hydarnes, due to his descendants governing...
position. Hydarnes I, satrap in the late 6th century BC?, granted Armenia by the Achaemenid king Darius I as a semi-hereditary satrapy Hydarnes II, satrap...
Ctesias, he was the son of Hidarnes III and therefore, the great grandson of Hydarnes, one of the six conspirators who had supported the rise of Darius the Great...
Immortals were described by Herodotus as being heavy infantry, led by Hydarnes II, that were kept constantly at a strength of exactly 10,000 men. He claimed...
Twice Round the Daffodils (1962) as John Rhodes The 300 Spartans (1962) as Hydarnes The Longest Day (1962) as RAF Pilot Maniac (1963) as Henri Doctor in Distress...
aid and, in September 522 BCE, along with Otanes, Intaphrenes, Gobryas, Hydarnes, Megabyzus and Aspathines, killed Gaumata in the fortress of Sikayauvati...
Mardonius there chose out first all the Persians called Immortals, save only Hydarnes their general, who said that he would not quit the king's person; and next...
same as Aspathines) Gobryas, father of Mardonius Intaphrenes Megabyzus I Hydarnes Darius I Arthur Emanuel Christensen the Danish historian and Iranologist...
love with Ellas David Farrar as King Xerxes of Persia Donald Houston as Hydarnes, leader of the Persian Immortals Anna Synodinou as Queen Gorgo of Sparta...
Mardonius there chose out first all the Persians called Immortals, save only Hydarnes their general, who said that he would not quit the king's person; and next...
Leotychidas II Eurybiades Aristides 'Xerxes I Artemisia I of Caria Mardonius † Hydarnes Strength Land forces: 10,000 Spartans 9,000 Athenians 5,000 Corinthians...
self-designated descendant from a member of one of the seven great house, Hydarnes, was the Orontid Dynasty of Armenia Facella, Margherita (2021). "Orontids"...
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Mardonius there chose out first all the Persians called Immortals, save only Hydarnes their general, who said that he would not quit the king's person; and next...
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