AchaemenicaAn Encyclopaedia of the Achaemenid Persian Empire

Person

Megabyzus

fifth-century Achaemenid general

A descendant of the conspirator Megabyzus, husband of a daughter of Xerxes I and commander in Artaxerxes I's Egyptian war. His reported revolt and reconciliation survive chiefly through Ctesias's court narrative.

Date
fl. mid-fifth century BCE
Other names
Megabyzus
Groups
Commanders and nobles
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