Abrocomes
{{Short description|Son of King Darius I (died 480 BC)}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Abrocomes
| death_place = Thermopylae, Greece
| father = Darius I of Persia
| mother = Phratagune
}}
{{About||the 5th century BCE Persian satrap|Abrocomas}}
Abrocomes ({{langx|grc|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.Herodotus, Histories (Herodotus), vii.224{{Citation
| last = Smith
| first = William
| author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)
| contribution = Abrocomes
| editor-last = Smith
| editor-first = William
| title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
| volume = 1
| pages = 3
| publisher =
| place =
| year = 1867
| contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html
| access-date = 2006-09-19
| archive-date = 2005-12-31
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051231191519/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html
| url-status = dead
}}
References
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Further reading
- [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2456 The history of Herodotus, Volume 2] at Project Gutenberg
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Category:Battle of Thermopylae
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:Persian people of the Greco-Persian Wars
Category:Military leaders of the Achaemenid Empire
Category:5th-century BC Iranian people
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