Artabanus
Ἀρτάβανος
(Ἀρτάβανος), sometimes written Artapanus or Artapanes.
1. A son of Hystaspes and brother of Dareius Hystaspis, is described by Herodotus (4.83) as dissuading his brother from the expedition against the Scythians. In the reign of Xerxes, the successor of Dareius, Artabanus appears occasionally again in the character of a wise and frank counsellor, and Herodotus introduces him several times as speaking. (Hdt. 7.10, 46-53.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.