Arsames (Old Persian Aršâma) was the son of Ariaramnes and King of Persia until it was subsumes into the Persian Empire by Cyrus II of Persia. His son was Hystaspes, later satrap of Parthia, and his grand-son Darius the Great, later Great King of Media and Persia. Arsames died after 520, under the reign of his grand-son.
His name in the Greek sources is . In Modern Persian it is ارشاما.
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