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		Megabyzus was a Persian general, son of Zopyrus[?] satrap of Babylon and a sister of the emperor Darius.
		His father was killed when the satrapy rebelled in 482 BC, and Megabyzus led the forces that recaptured the city, after which the statue of the god Marduk was destroyed to prevent future revolts.
		Some time later, Megabyzus saved Artaxerxes from a lion in a hunt, was subsequently exiled to Cyrtae[?] for violating the royal prerogative to make the first kill, but returned to Susa by pretending to be a leper and was pardoned.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Megabyzus.html (370 words)

	Megabyzus (2)
		Megabyzus was the son of Zopyrus and a sister of king Darius I the Great.
		Megabyzus' exact role during the Greek expedition is not known, except for the fact that he led one third of the army from the Hellespont through Thrace and Paeonia to Macedonia.
		Megabyzus, who had given his word that Inarus would not be killed, was unable to bear this humiliation and requested to be allowed to return from Artaxerxes' court to Syria.
	www.livius.org /mea-mem/megabyzus/megabyzus02.html (1148 words)

	Tutorial CTESIAS
		And Megabyzus began to make accusations against his own wife, Amytis, who was the daughter of Xerxes, as was said earlier, saying that she had committed adultery.
		And Artapanus plotted against him in turn and enlisted Megabyzus as an accomplice in his scheme, who was already distressed because of his wife, Amytis, and his suspicion of her adultery.
		And Megabyzus betrayed all their plans and Artapanus was killed in the way in which he had intended to kill Artoxerxes.
	www.shc.ed.ac.uk /classics/undergraduate/ancient/TutorialCTESIAS.htm (2698 words)

	A Brief History of Persian Empire
		In 465 BCE Xerxes was assassinated in the royal bedchamber by a conspiracy led by Artabanus, Megabyzus, and the eunuch chamberlain Aspamitres.
		Megabyzus, who on a hunt had saved Artaxerxes from a charging lion, was exiled for killing an animal before his master, and his son Zopyrus aided by Athenians assaulted Caunus and was killed.
		Megabyzus eventually was invited back to the king's table; but when he died, his wife Amytis, the king's sister, became the mistress of a Greek physician, who when it was discovered was buried alive for polluting the royal blood, Amytis dying the same day.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/brief_history_of_persian_empire.htm (7545 words)

	A Brief History of Persian Empire
		In 465 BC Xerxes was assassinated in the royal bedchamber by a conspiracy led by Artabanus, Megabyzus, and the eunuch chamberlain Aspamitres.
		Megabyzus, who on a hunt had saved Artaxerxes from a charging lion, was exiled for killing an animal before his master, and his son Zopyrus aided by Athenians assaulted Caunus and was killed.
		Megabyzus eventually was invited back to the king's table; but when he died, his wife Amytis, the king's sister, became the mistress of a Greek physician, who when it was discovered was buried alive for polluting the royal blood, Amytis dying the same day.
	www.parstimes.com /library/brief_history_of_persian_empire.html (7498 words)

	James Ussher - The Annals of the World.
		He told his plan to Megabyzus, whom he knew to be unhappy for the jealousy of his wife's supposed unfaithfulness.
		Megabyzus wounded Inaros in the thigh who fled into the stronghold, called Byblus, on the Isle of Prosopitis in the river of Nile.
		Megabyzus was greatly grieved by the death of Inaros and those Greeks.
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/nwp/World9.htm (15483 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 371 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A remnant of the forces of Achaemenes, who were still besieged in a place called the white castle (Aey/coi/ reT^os), near Memphis, was relieved, and the fleet of the Athenians destroyed by the Athenians themselves, who afterwards quitted Egypt.
		Soon after these occurrences Megabyzus revolted in Syria, because Artaxerxes had put Inarus to death contrary to the promise which Megabyzus had made to Inarus, when he made him his prisoner.
		Subsequently, however, Megabyzus became reconciled to his master.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0380.html (878 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Darius the Great by Jacob Abbott
		Megabyzus collected the unfortunate captives, together with their wives and children, and brought them down to the coast to embark them for Sardis.
		Megabyzus did not interfere with the work; but, as soon as he arrived at Sardis with his captives, and had delivered them to the king, he introduced the subject of Histiæus's city, and represented to Darius that it would be dangerous to the Persian interests to allow such an enterprise to go on.
		Megabyzus recommended that the king should not do this in an open or violent manner, but that he should contrive some way to arrest the progress of the undertaking without any appearance of suspicion or displeasure.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=abbott&book=darius&story=histiaeus (3614 words)

	RTAXERXES I, a son of Xerxes I and Amestris, whose name Flavius Josephus (Jewish Antiquities 11
		Megabyzus defeated Inarus and the Athenians, besieged them at Byblus in the Nile delta, and forced them to surrender on safe retreat in the beginning of 455-54 (Herodotus 3.12.4, 160.2; 7.7; Thucydides 1.104, 109-10; Ctesias F 14; Isocrates 8.86; Diodorus 11.71.3-6, 74-75, 77.1-5).
		According to Ctesias (F 14), this was caused by the execution of Inarus and the captured Greeks by the king, contrary to the agreement the general had made with them.
		Finally a settlement was arranged by Amestris and by Amytis (the king's sister and the wife of Megabyzus); a quarrel and reconciliation between the two men took place a second time some years later (Ctesias, ibid.).
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v2f6/v2f6a018.html (1494 words)

	Darius on Government
		Megabyzus spoke next, and advised the setting up an oligarchy: "In all that Otanes has said to persuade you to put down monarchy," he observed, "I fully concur; but his recommendation that we should call the people to power seems to me not the best advice.
		Let the enemies of the Persians be ruled by democracies; but let us choose out from the citizens a certain number of the worthiest, and put the government into their hands.
		After him Darius came forward, and spoke as follows: "All that Megabyzus said against democracy was well said, I think; but about oligarchy he did not speak advisedly; for take these three forms of government---democracy, oligarchy, and monarchy---and let them each be at their best, I maintain that monarchy far surpasses the other two.
	people.westminstercollege.edu /faculty/mmarkowski/H330/2/Darius.htm (1276 words)

	The Charioteer: In the City of Har - Part Four
		Megabyzus men had attacked at dawn, killing the outriders and their horses, then dropping the team in place.
		Megabyzus thought about the trouble the boy was giving him, and decided that a painful death would be appropriate.
		Megabyzus threw the winecup at the captain, who was too surprised to duck.
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	Megabyzus (1)
		That Megabyzus was involved in the killing of Gaumâta is confirmed by another source, the Behistun inscription; this inscription also tells us the name of Megabyzus' father, Dâtuvahya.
		According to Herodotus, Megabyzus had a son named Zopyrus who played an important role in the suppression of a Babylonian rebellion.
		Zopyrus' son was also called Megabyzus; he was one of the most important Persian commanders in the first half of the fifth century BCE.
	www.livius.org /mea-mem/megabyzus/megabyzus.html (251 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1006 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Megabyzus, the son of Zopyrus, and grandson of the above, was one of the commanders of the land forces in the expedition of Xerxes against Greece, b.c.
		82.) Megabyzus was the commander of the army which Cimon defeated on the Eurymedon, in b.
		3.) [CiMON.] When the Athenians made their expedition against Egypt, Megabyzus was sent against them with a large army; and having driven, them out of Memphis, he shut them up in the island of Prosopitis, which he at last took, after a siege of eighteen months, b.
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	The Charioteer: In the City of Har - Part Five
		Once the perimeter watches were set, and she was sure the guards were fully in her command, she went to the tent of the former satrap.
		The former General of the Goddess' Army maintained a house on the edge of the parade ground, near to the soldier's quarter.
		I hear Megabyzus is greeting his ancestors in hell." Haria looked over Gabrielle, examining the gown she wore.
	www.azarnes.com /har5.html (9557 words)

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		Arriving by land he (Megabyzus) defeated the Egyptians and their allies in a battle, and drove the Hellenes out of Memphis, and at length shut them up in the island of Prosopitis, where he besieged them for a year and six months.
		Byblos) seemed impregnable, Megabyzus came to terms with Inaros and the Greeks, who numbered more than 6,000: no harm would come to them at the hands of the king and the Greeks could return to their homeland whenever they wished.
		Megabyzus explained what had happened, stating that he had taken Byblos thanks to the guarantees given to Inaros and the Greeks.
	www.kent.net /DisplacedDynasties/Amasis_&_Apries.htm (6329 words)

	Artaxerxes - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		Shortly after this Megabyzus led a revolt in Syria and compelled his sovereign to make peace with him on his own terms, and afterward lived and died in high favor with his humiliated king.
		Zopyrus, the son of Megabyzus at a later time, while satrap of Lycia and Caria, led a rebellion in which he was assisted by the Greeks.
		Artaxerxes I died in 424 BC, and was succeeded by his son Xerxes II, and later by two other sons, Sogdianus and Ochus, the last of whom assumed the regnal name of Darius, whom the Greeks surnamed Nothus.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T775 (648 words)

	Anabasis - Part III
		He left it behind in charge of Megabyzus, the sacristan of the goddess, thinking that the voyage on which he was starting was fraught with danger.
		In the event of his coming out of it alive, he charged Megabyzus to restore to him the deposit; but should any evil happen to him, then he was to cause to be made and to dedicate on his behalf to Artemis, whatsoever thing he thought would be pleasing to the goddess.
		In the days of his banishment, when Xenophon was now established by the Lacedaemonians as a colonist in Scillus[4], a place which lies on 7 the main road to Olympia, Megabyzus arrived on his way to Olympia as a spectator to attend the games, and restored to him the deposit.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/historical/Anabasis/chap33.html (939 words)

	3504 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Artabazus and Megabyzus were made commanders for the war in Egypt.
		Megabyzus left Sartamah as governor of Egypt and returned to Artaxerxes with Inaros and some other Greeks.
		After Megabyzus had lived 5 years in exile, he fled from the Island where he was confined and feigning himself to be a "pisagas", (i.e.
	bennieblount.org /Online/Ussher/82.htm (23746 words)

	Janus Head: Doug Mann/Political Ideology
		Instead, Megabyzus opts for the rule of the best, for only they will produce the best policy.
		Megabyzus, the two sharing the doom of becoming historical footnotes.
		Darius, although more incisive than Megabyzus in his criticism of democracy, is on soft ground in assuming that any given monarch will be the best (for he could also be, as Caligula later was, very bad).
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	Good News Bible Reading Program > December 27, 2004
		Recall that the satrap Megabyzus, who had led the region under his authority containing Judea in revolt against Persian rule, had renewed his fealty to the emperor only three years earlier.
		Moreover, it was probably in the confusion of Megabyzus' rebellion that Artaxerxes gave the earlier order to halt the refortification of Jerusalem's defenses.
		They had no doubt sided with Megabyzus in his rebellion and now correctly saw Nehemiah as a strong pro-Persian sent among them to police the region as the henchman of Artaxerxes himself.
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	5Th Century B.C.: The People's Chronology
		Persia's Xerxes I sends his brother-in-law Megabyzus with an army to quell an uprising at Babylon, where two successive pretenders to the throne have appeared.
		Megabyzus defeats the second pretender, one Shamash-eriba, and wreaks havoc on the city, tearing down its fortresses, looting its temples, and carrying off a huge golden statue of the god Bel-Marduk to be melted down.
		Persia's Achaemenid king Xerxes I is assassinated at age 84 (approximate) along with his older son in a conspiracy led by his commander of the guard Artabanus who has been joined by his minister Artabanus and his brother-in-law Megabyzus.
	history.enotes.com /peoples-chronology/year-5th-century-b-c (7151 words)

	d. The First Peloponnesian War. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The thetes, though never legally eligible, were soon permitted to hold the office.
		A Persian force under Megabyzus defeated the Athenians at the citadel of Memphis.
		The Athenians were in turn besieged on the island of Prosopitis in the Nile Valley.
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	meyersnotes
		Since Megabyzus is credited in Diodorus as commanding the forces opposing the Greek assault on Cyprus in 450 B.C.E., one should be skeptical about the reliability of this account.
		Stern ("The Persian Empire," 73) maintains that Megabyzus together with Arsames, satrap of Egypt, destroyed the Athenian fleet in Cyprus that had unsuccessfully besieged Kition and Salamas.
		Ctesias mentions that Megabyzus was supported by his two sons Zopyrus and Artyphius.
	personal.centenary.edu /~sbrayfor/meyersnotes.htm (1896 words)

	MYTIS, Median and Persian female name, attested only in the Greek form A´mytis, which perhaps may reflect (with vowel ...
		Having been told of the murder of Tanyoxarces and having asked king Cambyses for the murderer's extradition in vain, she committed suicide by poison (Ctesias F 13).
		(2) Daughter of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I and Amestris, sister of Artaxerxes I, married to the satrap Megabyzus, son of Zopyrus.
		She was accused of adultery and unchastity by her husband, but brought to her senses by her father (Ctesias F 13); after Megabyzus' death she again indulged in sexual intercourse (Ctesias F 14), with, among others, her Greek physician, Apollonides of Cos.
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	Xerxes - WikIran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This proceeding led to two rebellions, probably in 484 and 479; in the Babylonian documents occur the names of two ephemeral kings, Shamash-irba and Tarziya, who belong to this time.
		One of these rebellions was suppressed by Megabyzus, son of Zopyrus, the satrap whom the Babylonians had slain.' Darius had left to his son the task of punishing the Greeks for their interference in the Ionian rebellion and the victory of Marathon.
		From 483 Xerxes prepared his expedition with great care: a channel was dug through the isthmus of the peninsula of Mount Athos; provisions were stored in the stations on the road through Thrace; two bridges were thrown across the Hellespont.
	www.wikiran.org /wiki/Xerxes (812 words)

	The New World War of Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He sees Mabus as a cryptogram for Gobrayas Megabyzus who was one of several conspirators who overthrew a Zoroastrian priest (or magus) who had usurped the throne of Persia (Iran) in ancient times.
		Megabyzus (Mabus) later helped Darius become Emperor of Persia.
		Later, as a governor of Persian holdings in Europe, Megabyzus showed himself to be a real tyrant with a flair for terrorism.
	www.hogueprophecy.com /prophecy/9-11contd.htm (2832 words)

	meyers
		The question is whether or not this letter of the officials of Beyond the River in Ezra refers to a truly indigenous revolt in the province of Yehud or simply to the aftermath of Megabyzus's brief engagement with Artaxerxes, suggesting perhaps that he had used Jerusalem to support his cause.
		The consequences of either the Egyptian revolt or the rebellion of Megabyzus in any event are certainly reflected in the vividness of the report in Nehemiah regarding the broken walls of Jerusalem and its burnt gates (Neh 1:3).
		At the conclusion of the reading of the reply of King Artaxerxes' letter to Rehum and Shimshei a delegation is sent to Jerusalem to halt work on the Jerusalem fortification (Ezra 4:23).
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