Abrocomes
Died480 BC
Thermopylae, Greece
FatherDarius I
MotherPhratagune

Abrocomes (Ancient Greek: Ὰβροκόμης; died 480 BC) 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 I.[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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