Artembares (disambiguation)

Artembares (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτεμβάρης) was the Greek form of the ancient Persian name Arttumpara or Artumpara. We know of several people with this name from ancient history:

  • Artembares, 6th century BCE man who features in a story of the youth of Cyrus the Great
    • Cyrus, as an adolescent, having the son of Artembares whipped, a painting by 18th century French painter Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont depicting the anecdote above
  • Artembares, a Persian man who is mentioned by Herodotus as having advised Cyrus the Great that the Persians should go to a better country.[1]
  • Artembares, a Persian man mentioned by the playwright Aeschylus in his historical tragedy The Persians as having been killed at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE.[2]
  • Artumpara, a noble of Lycian lineage who is mentioned in several ancient inscriptions and coins between the 5th and 4th centuries BCE.[3]

References
  1. Herodotus, Histories 9.122
  2. Aeschylus, 29, 297The Persians
  3. Dandamayev, M.A. (1986). "Artembarēs". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. 2. Brill Publishers. p. 660.
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