id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4194 Hystaspes (father of Darius I) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1312 259 70 Position of Hystaspes in the Achaemenid lineage according to Darius the Great in the Behistun inscription. According to Ammianus Marcellinus, Hystaspes penetrated deep into India, where he learned from the Brahmins.[1] Historically, this corresponds to the time of the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley. A "Niebuhr inscription" reading "Darius the Great King, King of Kings, King of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenian, who built this Palace".[2] 550 BC), was a Persian satrap of Bactria and Persis.[3] He was the father of Darius I, king of the Achaemenid Empire, and Artabanus, who was a trusted advisor to both his brother Darius as well as Darius's son and successor, Xerxes I. He was satrap of Persis under Cambyses, and probably under Cyrus the Great also. King Darius says: That is why we are called Achaemenids; from antiquity we have been noble; from antiquity has our dynasty been royal. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4194.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4194.txt