What is "achaemenes"

n. The founder of the Achaemenid dynasty.

Achaemenes (c. 705 BC – c. 675 BC) was the eponymous apical ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty of rulers from Persis.

Other than his role as apical ancestor, nothing is known of his life or actions. "It is quite possible that Achaemenes was only the mythical ancestor of the Persian royal house [, but] [i]f Achaemenes was a historical personage, he should have lived at the end of the 8th and the first quarter of the 7th century B.C."

Achaemenes (Haxāmaniš) was the satrap of Egypt from 484 BC until his death in 460 BC, and a member of the Achaemenid dynasty.

According to Herodotus, he was a son of Persian king Darius I by his wife Atossa, and full brother of Xerxes I. Ctesias, who wrongly calls him Achaemenides, states that he was a son of Xerxes, rather than his brother.

After the first rebellion of Egypt, he was put in charge of the country by king Xerxes. He commanded the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC), and was defeated and slain by Inarus, the leader of the second rebellion of Egypt, during the Battle of Pampremis (460/459 BC).

The name Achaemenes and similar can mean:-

• Achaemenes, supposed founder of the first Persian dynasty.
• Achaemenes (satrap) was the satrap of Egypt from 484 BC until his death in 460 BC.
• Achaemenides is a minor fictional character in Virgil's Aeneid.