Masistes

Location of Bactria within the Persian Empire.

Masistes (Old Persian đŽ¶đŽ°đŽĄđđŽ«, MaΞiĆĄta; Greek ÎœÎ±ÏƒÎŻÏƒÏ„Î·Ï‚, MasĂ­stēs; Old Iranian *MasiĆĄta;[1] died c. 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). He was satrap (governor) of Bactria during his brother's reign, where he attempted to start a revolt in 478 BC.

  1. ^ Zadok & Zadok 1997, p. 5; Briant 1997, pp. 54, 91-92. The asterisk indicates that the name was reconstructed by modern scholars, and the sign "ĆĄ" indicates the sound "sh". According to Ran Zadok, the name is of a non-Persic dialect origin.