Abrocomes

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Abrocomes
DiedThermopylae, Greece
FatherDarius I of Persia
MotherPhratagune

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]

References

  1. Herodotus, Histories (Herodotus), vii.224
  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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