MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mardonius

600 BC - 479 BC

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Mardonius (Old Persian: 𐎶𐎼𐎯𐎢𐎴𐎡𐎹 Mr̥duniyaʰ; Ancient Greek: Μαρδόνιος Mardónios; died 479 BC) was a Persian military commander during the Greco-Persian Wars. Though he secured initial victories in the first Persian invasion of Greece, he was ultimately forced to retreat into Anatolia after suffering catastrophic losses in both men and material due to a storm off the coast of Mount Athos, following which he was relieved of his command by Darius the Great. He was later re-appointed by Xerxes I and took part in the second Persian invasion of Greece. In 480 and 479 BC, Mardonius spearheaded the Persian army's destruction of Athens. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mardonius is the 105th most popular military personnel (up from 184th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Greece (up from 125th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Greek Military Personnel.

Mardonius is most famous for his role in the Battle of Thermopylae, where he led the Persian army against the Greek defenders.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mardonius ranks 105 out of 2,058. Before him are Nestor Makhno, Andrea Doria, Robert E. Lee, John of Austria, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, and Hattori Hanzō. After him are Võ Nguyên Giáp, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Walther von Reichenau, Yonatan Netanyahu, Heinrich Müller, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Mardonius ranks 12. Before him are Lucretia, Servius Tullius, Ānanda, Yaśodharā, Maya, and Belshazzar. After him are Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Cambyses I, Pheidippides, Hippasus, Theano, and Polycrates. Among people deceased in 479 BC, Mardonius ranks 2. Before him is Confucius.

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    Lucretia

    NOBLEMAN

    600 BC - 509 BC

    HPI: 79.96

    Rank: 6

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    Servius Tullius

    POLITICIAN

    600 BC - 535 BC

    HPI: 78.78

    Rank: 7

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    Ānanda

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    600 BC - 500 BC

    HPI: 78.77

    Rank: 8

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    Yaśodharā

    POLITICIAN

    600 BC - Present

    HPI: 77.75

    Rank: 9

  • Photo of Maya

    Maya

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    600 BC - 600 BC

    HPI: 77.09

    Rank: 10

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    Belshazzar

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    600 BC - 600 BC

    HPI: 75.54

    Rank: 11

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    Mardonius

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    600 BC - 479 BC

    HPI: 75.10

    Rank: 12

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    Gaius Marcius Coriolanus

    POLITICIAN

    600 BC - 500 BC

    HPI: 74.23

    Rank: 13

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    Cambyses I

    POLITICIAN

    600 BC - 559 BC

    HPI: 73.84

    Rank: 14

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    Pheidippides

    SOCIAL ACTIVIST

    600 BC - 490 BC

    HPI: 73.68

    Rank: 15

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    Hippasus

    PHILOSOPHER

    600 BC - 500 BC

    HPI: 73.44

    Rank: 16

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    Theano

    PHILOSOPHER

    600 BC - 600 BC

    HPI: 73.38

    Rank: 17

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    Polycrates

    POLITICIAN

    600 BC - 515 BC

    HPI: 73.36

    Rank: 18

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Others Deceased in 479 BC

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    Confucius

    PHILOSOPHER

    551 BC - 479 BC

    HPI: 93.57

    Rank: 1

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    Mardonius

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    600 BC - 479 BC

    HPI: 75.10

    Rank: 2

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Mardonius ranks 89 out of 1,024. Before him are Handan Sultan (1574), Melissus of Samos (-470), Creon (null), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Irene Papas (1929), and Mikis Theodorakis (1925). After him are Hippias (-443), Arion (-700), Archilochus (-680), Simonides of Ceos (-556), Hephaestion (-356), and Philip III of Macedon (-359).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Greece

Among military personnels born in Greece, Mardonius ranks 8. Before him are Spartacus (-109), Themistocles (-524), Ptolemy I Soter (-367), Miltiades (-540), Pyrrhus of Epirus (-318), and Seleucus I Nicator (-358). After him are Hephaestion (-356), Cimon (-510), Pittacus of Mytilene (-650), Desmond Doss (1919), Djemal Pasha (1872), and Parmenion (-400).

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