Person
Harpagus
Median noble and commander under Cyrus II
A Median noble whom the traditions make instrumental in Astyages's fall and who then campaigned for Cyrus II in western Anatolia. The independently defensible outline is much thinner than Herodotus's elaborate revenge story.
- Date
- fl. mid-sixth century BCE
- Other names
- Harpagos
- Groups
- Commanders and nobles
- Record status
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Attested in
- Herodotus in Harpagus
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