Person
Mardonius
Achaemenid commander; d. 479 BCE
A son of Gobryas, son-in-law of Darius I and senior commander in Xerxes I's invasion of Greece, killed at Plataea in 479 BCE. The Greek war-hawk portrait requires source-critical qualification.
- Date
- d. 479 BCE
- Other names
- Marduniya
- Groups
- Commanders and nobles
- Record status
- Secure identification
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Attested in
- Herodotus in Mardonius
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