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Abrocomes

Background

Abrocomes (Greek: Ὰβροκόμης) was a son of king Darius I of Persia and his wife Phratagune, who died with his full brother Hyperanthes in the battle of Thermopylae, while fighting over the body of Leonidas.[1][2]References[edit]Jump up ^ Herodotus, Histories (Herodotus), vii.224Jump up ^ Smith, William (1867), "Abrocomes", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, p. 3Further reading[edit]The history of Herodotus, Volume 2 at Project Gutenburg