id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1792 Darius the Great - Wikipedia .html text/html 12079 1846 75 According to the modern historian Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (1994), Darius' mother was a certain Rhodogune.[8] However, according to Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (2013), recently uncovered texts in Persepolis indicates that his mother was Irdabama, an affluent landowner descended from a family of local Elamite rulers.[15] Richard Stoneman likewise refers Irdabama to as the mother of Darius.[16] The Behistun Inscription of Darius states that his father was satrap of Bactria in 522 BCE.[a] According to Herodotus (III.139), Darius, prior to seizing power and "of no consequence at the time", had served as a spearman (doryphoros) in the Egyptian campaign (528–525 BCE) of Cambyses II, then the Persian Great King;[19] this is often interpreted to mean he was the king's personal spear-carrier, an important role. Finger Snail Fish Pen-Abu Animal Stork Canide Bull Scorpion I Shendjw Iry-Hor Ka Scorpion II Narmer / Menes Hotepsekhemwy Nebra/Raneb Nynetjer Ba Nubnefer Horus Sa Weneg-Nebty Wadjenes Senedj Seth-Peribsen Sekhemib-Perenmaat Neferkara I Neferkasokar Hudjefa I Khasekhemwy ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1792.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1792.txt