'''Parsondes''' was the king of the Cadusii,<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Ctesias|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LKFaPaZpergC&dq=parsondes+cadusii&pg=PA271|title=Ctesias' Persian History: Introduction, text, and translation|last2=Stronk|first2=Jan P.|date=2010|publisher=Wellem Verlag|isbn=978-3-941820-01-2|pages=271|language=en}}</ref> who, according to Ctesias, was a Mede of Persian<ref>{{Cite book|last=Diodorus (Siculus.)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6O2CAAAAIAAJ|title=Diodorus of Sicily|date=1960|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-99429-4|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7a0LAQAAMAAJ&q=%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0|title=Journal of ancient history|date=1995|publisher=Nauka|pages=31|language=ru}}</ref> origin.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DWo_AQAAIAAJ&q=%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8|title=Vestnik drevneĭ istorii|date=1971|publisher=Наука|pages=35|language=ru}}</ref>
== Name == The name Parsondes probably comes from the important city of Parsindu, which was located among the mountains of Namri, on the road to Ecbatana.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sayce |first=A. H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EMk11VZijN0C&q=parsondes |title=The Hibbert Lectures, 1887: Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion |date=2005-09-01 |publisher=Cosimo, Inc. |isbn=978-1-59605-234-5 |pages=157 |language=en}}</ref> According to another version, Parsondes is the doric form of the name Perseus.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herbert |first=Algernon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwUpAAAAYAAJ&dq=Parsondas%2C+which%2C+as+I+have+before+said%2C+is+a+Doric+form+of+the+name+Perseus.&pg=PA359 |title=Nimrod: A Discourse on Certain Passages of History and Fable |date=1828 |publisher=R. Priestley |pages=359 |language=en}}</ref>
== History == The Medes were ruled by Artaeus, who was the successor to the Assyrian king Sardanapalus, in Media there was a certain Parsondes, a man who was famous for his courage and strength, was smart and outwardly handsome, what the king liked among the people of the Persians from whom he descending.He loved wild animals, caught them in hand-to-hand combat, and in a chariot or horse battle.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nysKAQAAIAAJ&q=%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4|title=Vestnik drevneĭ istorii|date=1960|publisher=Наука|pages=250–253|language=ru}}</ref> Artaeus fought with the cadus and his friend and loyal adviser, a persian named Parsondes, comes to the cadusii, who made him their supreme commander.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Историческая библиотека|url=http://simposium.ru/ru/book/export/html/863|access-date=2021-11-07|website=simposium.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Книги I - VI {{!}} Симпосий Συμπόσιον|url=http://simposium.ru/ru/node/12242|access-date=2021-11-07|website=simposium.ru}}</ref> He defeated Arteus, devastated Media and became the king of the Cadusii. At the end of his days Parsondes made a great oath that no successor should make peace with the Medes; and thus the enmity continued, the cadusii did not obey any king, until Cyrus transferred the empire from the Medes to the Persians.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0QaAAAAYAAJ|title=The Journal of Hellenic Studies|date=1988|publisher=Council of the Society|pages=148|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Syme|first=Sir Ronald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmVoAAAAMAAJ&q=Roman%20Papers:%20Volume%20VI|title=Roman Papers: Volume VI|date=August 1991|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-814494-6|pages=319|language=en}}</ref>
== Hypotheses == Ernst Herzfeld believed that the name of Parsondes<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kramers |first=Johannes Hendrik |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qg4_AQAAIAAJ |title=Analecta Orientalia: Posthumous Writings and Selected Minor Works |date=1954 |publisher=E.J. Brill |pages=247 |language=en}}</ref> is etymologically identical to the name of Afrasiab (Avestan: Fraŋrasyan<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9oUAAAAIAAJ |title=Analecta Orientalia Posthumous Writings and Selected Minor Workds |publisher=Brill Archive |pages=247 |language=en}}</ref>).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dulęba |first=Władysław |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpIaAQAAIAAJ |title=The Cyrus Legend in the Šāhnāme |date=1995 |publisher=Enigma Press |isbn=978-83-86110-19-3 |pages=63, 80 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c0NtAAAAMAAJ |title=Folia orientalia |date=1987 |publisher=Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe |pages=169 |language=en}}</ref> According to François Lenormant, Parsondes is one of the names of Ninus, or Hercules, whom he identifies with the sun.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ctesias |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=apjD6zCrqhQC |title=The fragments of the Persika of Ktesias |date=1888 |publisher=Macmillan |pages=99 |language=el}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Cadusii Category:History of Talysh Category:History of Gilan