Artyphius

{{Short description|5th-century BC Achaemenid general}} {{infobox royalty |name=Artyphius | native_lang1 = Old Persian | native_lang1_name1 = Ardufya | father = Artabanus | dynasty = Achaemenid |module = {{Infobox military person |embed = yes |allegiance = Achaemenid Empire |commands = Contingents of Gandharian and Dadicae |battles = Second Persian invasion of Greece }} }}

[[File:Xerxes_detail_Gandharan_enhanced.jpg|thumb|The Gandharan soldiers (here depicted on the tomb of Xerxes I) were under the command of Artyphius during the Second Persian invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE).|left]] '''Artyphius''' (Old Persian: ''Ardufya'') was a general of the Achaemenid Army during the Second Persian invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE). He was the son of Artabanus, grandson of Hystaspes, and therefore nephew of Darius the Great and first degree cousin of Xerxes I.<ref>{{cite book |title=Cambridge Ancient History |date=1924 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521228046 |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNDpPqeDjo0C&pg=PA209 |language=en}}</ref>

According to Herodotus, Artyphius was in command of the contingents of the Gandharian and Dadicae in the invading Achaemenid army of Xerxes I:<ref>"The Parthians and Chorasmians had for their commander Artabazus son of Pharnaces, the Sogdians Azanes son of Artaeus, the Gandarians and Dadicae Artyphius son of Artabanus." in Herodotus [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/7B*.html VII 64-66]</ref>

{{quote|''The Parthians and Chorasmians had for their commander Artabazus son of Pharnaces, the Sogdians Azanes son of Artaeus, the Gandarians and Dadicae Artyphius son of Artabanus.''|Herodotus [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/7B*.html VII 64-66]}}

Artyphius had a brother, named Tritantaechmes, who also a general in the army of Xerxes I.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Briant |first1=Pierre |title=From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire |date=2002 |publisher=Eisenbrauns |isbn=9781575061207 |page=353 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxQ9W6F1oSYC&pg=PA353 |language=en}}</ref>

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Category:Military leaders of the Achaemenid Empire Category:Persian people of the Greco-Persian Wars Category:5th-century BC Iranian people