Seven Achaemenid clans
Seven Achaemenid clans or seven Achaemenid houses were seven significant families that had key roles during the Achaemenid era. Only one of them had regnant pedigree.[1]
Nobles of the seven clans
According to
democratic government but his offer was not adopted and monarchy continued in Iran.[2]
The names of them were mentioned in Herodotus' Histories and the Behistun Inscription:
- Otanes
- Ardumanish (possibly the same as Aspathines)
- Mardonius
- Intaphrenes
- Megabyzus I
- Hydarnes
- Darius I
Arthur Emanuel Christensen the Danish historian and
Iranologist, Herodotus was mistaken to say their main prominence was participation of them in murder of Gaumata. Also, the Parthians continued those formations.[3]
See also
- Seven Parthian clans
Notes
References
- Sassanid Persia by Arthur Emanuel Christensen