Name Phraortes Gender Masculine Usage Old Persian (Hellenized) Scripts Φραόρτης(Ancient Greek) Pronounced Pron. /pʰra.ór.tɛːs/(Attic Greek) /ɸra.ˈor.tis/(Kione Greek) Edit Status Status Meaning & History Hellenized form of Old Persian Fravartiš. Phraortes (c. 665-633 BC) was the son of Deioces, and the second king of the Median Empire.
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