id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-217 Masistes - Wikipedia .html text/html 2608 311 74 A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Masistes]]; see its history for attribution. 478 BC) was a Persian prince of the Achaemenid Dynasty, son of king Darius I (reign: 520-486 BC) and of his wife Atossa, and full brother of king Xerxes I (reign: 486-465 BC). Masistes' family stayed near the battle, in Sardis, Lydia, which was a common practice of the nobility of the Persian Empire.[5] In Herodotus' Histories, he comments that while Masistes was fighting, his brother, king Xerxes, seduced Masistes' wife (see below).[6] Cyrus the Younger is just about to kill his brother, king Artaxerxes II, but stops when he sees him dressing himself with the royal robe (Plutarch, Artoxerxes III 1-4). Xerxes was the first-born son of Darius after he was crowned king, and he was also son of Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus the Great, founder of the empire. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-217.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-217.txt