Abrokomas

Abrocomes

Abrocomes

Son of King Darius I (died 480 BC)

Abrocomes (Ancient Greek: Ὰβροκόμης) was a son of king Darius I of Persia and his wife Phratagune, who died with his full brother Hyperanthes in the battle of Thermopylae, while fighting over the body of Leonidas.[1][2]

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For the 5th century BCE Persian satrap, see Abrocomas.

References

  1. [1]
    Herodotus, Histories (Herodotus), vii.224
  2. [2]
    Smith, William (1867), "Abrocomes", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 3, archived from the original on 2005-12-31, retrieved 2006-09-19

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