This ruler supposedly took power after Phaidyme (“figh-DEE-may”) discovered that another man had no ears, leading Otanes (15[1])(“oh-TAH-nace”) to speak in favor of isonomy. This ruler gained the throne after winning (15[1])a contest between six men about whose horse would neigh first with the help of his groom Oebares (“oy-BAH-race”). A trilingual inscription in Elamite and Babylonian cuneiform shows him trampling a rival whom he alleged to be (*) Gaumata (10[1])but who ruled as Bardiya or Smerdis. (10[1])This man suppressed revolts by two men claiming to be the sons of Nabonidus with the regnal names Nebuchadnezzar III and IV, as described in his Behistun inscription. (10[1])Aristagoras’s Ionian Revolt was a rebellion against (10[1])this leader. For 10 points, name this ruler of the Achaemenids who fought the Greeks before his son Xerxes I. ■END■