Badres

Badres (Ancient Greek: Βάδρης) or Bares (Ancient Greek: Βάρης) was a man of ancient Persia, of the tribe of the Pasargadae, who lived in the 6th century BCE and was aligned with the Achaemenid Empire.

He was appointed to the command of the naval portion of the force which Aryandes, Achaemenid satrap of ancient Egypt, sent against the city of Barca, on the pretext of avenging the murder of Arcesilaus III of Cyrene. The general Amasis was dispatched alongside Badres, to command the land force.[1]

Around 512 BCE, they captured Barca after a nine-month siege. Those who were considered to have been responsible for the murder of Arcesilaus were handed over to Pheretima, Arcesilaus's mother, who had them impaled on the city walls with the members of their families.[2] Afterwards, the Persians were allowed to pass through Cyrene, and Badres was anxious to take the city; but through the refusal of Amasis, who reminded Badres that their objective had been scoped only to the capture of Barca, the opportunity was lost.[3][4]

This is perhaps the same Badres whom the historian Herodotus mentions as commanding a portion of the Persian army in the expedition of Xerxes I against Greece.[5]

References

  1. ^ Adcock, Frank E.; Bury, John Bagnell; Cook, Stanley Arthur, eds. (1926). The Cambridge Ancient History: The Persian empire and the West. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 24. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  2. ^ Osborne, Robin (2024). Cartledge, Paul; Christesen, Paul (eds.). The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Cyrene to Metapontion. Vol. 4. Oxford University Press. p. 70. ISBN 9780199383559. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  3. ^ Herodotus, Histories 4.167, 203
  4. ^ Briant, Pierre (2002). From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns. p. 141. ISBN 9781575061207. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  5. ^ Herodotus, Histories 7.77

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Elder, Edward (1870). "Badres". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 452.

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