Phraortes (Old Persian Frâda): son of Upadaranma, king of Media (522-521 BCE).
The immediate cause of Phraortes' rebellion was the death of the Persian king Cambyses in the Spring of 522 and the usurpation of the throne by a Magian named Gaumâta, who did not belong to the Achaemenid dynasty and may have been a Mede by birth.
Phraortes fled to the Parthians, but he was caught on his way to the religious center of the Magians, Rhagae (modern Tehrân).
PHRAORTES, the Greek form of Fravartish, king of Media.
From other sources we obtain no information whatever about Phraortes; but the data of the Assyrian inscriptions prove that Assur-banipal (see Babylonia And Assyria), at least during the greater part of his reign, maintained the Assyrian supremacy in Western Asia, and that in 645 he conquered Susa.
Phraortes), a Mede, rebelled in Media and spoke to the people thus: I am Khshathrita, of the family of Uvakhshatra (Cyaxares)." He reigned for a short time, but was defeated by Hydarnes, and afterwards by Darius himself, taken prisoner in Rhagae (Rai), and executed in Ecbatana (520 B.C.; see inscription of Darius at Behistun).
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