This man was named Gomeda, a wizard of the Persian Empire. In Herodotus' work, he is called Smmeldis, and we call him Gomeda, which is easier to remember.
The Persian Empire was founded in 553 BC by Cyrus II, a man named Gomeda who is said to have had two ears cut off by Cyrus, and some of the ears were later installed as fakes.
In 530 BC, Cyrus was accidentally killed in a war, and his son Cambyses took the throne. Cambyses was a cruel and violent man who was labeled a "tyrant" by later generations, and Tom Holland said in "Persian Wars" that he brutally killed his own brothers, he committed incest with his sisters, he shot the wine pourer as an arrow target, and he buried 12 nobles head down alive. After the conquest of Egypt, he ordered the mummy of Jahmos II to be dug up and burned to vent his anger, and he also killed the sacred cow of Apis and went mad by the curse (CITIC Press, 2016).
After the establishment of the Persian Empire, its internal contradictions were extremely acute, and although Cambyses inherited the throne, he and his brother Bardia always tore at each other. Cambyses was always worried that his throne would be taken away by his younger brother Bardia, and it is said that at one point he even dreamed that his younger brother Bardia would sit on his throne.
Nevertheless, Cambyses did something during his reign, leading an army in 525 BC to defeat Psamythic III, the last Pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, at the Battle of Belucia, conquering Egypt, forcing Cyrene and Libya to submit, and expanding the Persian Empire into North Africa.
During this time, Gomeda, who had two ears cut off, had been thinking about how to take revenge, and when Cyrus died, he took this vendetta to Cyrus's son. In 522 BC, his good fortune came. In that year, there was a wave of insurrection in Persia, and in March he launched an uprising on mount Alcadrish in the Perishvade region.
After all, a wizard's ability to summon is limited, and Gomeda begins to study Cambyses, looking for a loophole in Cambyses. The truth is that he soon found out—after Cambyses' attempts to invade Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Cush were foiled, which led to an anti-Persian rebellion in Egypt in 522 BC. Cambyses personally went to quell the rebellion, and in order to prevent his brother Bardia from making trouble, he took Bardia with him. On the way, the two brothers clashed fiercely, and the grumpy Cambyses stabbed Bardia to death with a sword and led his army on to Egypt.
Gomeda was very excited to hear the news —you—Cambyses—wasn't he worried that Bardia would take your throne—didn't you—Cambyses—have you—Cambyses—not have already killed Bardia—you—Cambyses—wouldn't have thought of it—that I could still bring Bardia back to life! As a result, Gomeda began to impersonate Bardia and expand the uprising in the name of Bardia, causing many opponents of Cambyses to come and join.
Pretending to make Gomeda's uprising progress so well, no one expected that at this time he would get a better news than Cambyses killing Bardia - Cambyses mysteriously died on the way home from quelling the unrest in Egypt! Aren't you—Cambyses—already dead—and I—the impersonating Bardia—we are all sons of Cyrus—you—Cambyses—come and tell me whose throne persia will be!?
When all was said and done, Gomeda concealed the turban that wrapped around his head tightly and began to inherit the throne in the name of Cambyses' brother Bardia, which, strangely enough, went undetected— on April 14, he was accepted as king, and set out in the palace to issue an order, promising to exempt the empire from taxes and military service for 3 years, and on July 1, he was recognized by the entire empire.
At this time, Gao Moda's revenge was also repaid, and he also became an emperor, which should be said to be satisfied, and then continue to work, maybe he will become a good emperor. But after staying on the throne for a month, he had a crooked mind - hey, how beautiful are the two wives of Gombis, why can't they be "inherited"? So Gomeda married two princesses of Cambises, Atosha and Pajdumi, and it was after this that his fake goods revealed the fox's tail.
Confronted by Atossa and Pajdumé, Gomeda exposes her greedy and lustful nature, clinging to the two women all day long, leaving aside what the emperor was going to do. Once, after a rain of clouds, he fell asleep on his head, very tired, and Paydumé suddenly found that his ears had fallen off. How could Bardia have a false ear—Paydumé got up and left without much noise, and whispered the news to the Persian nobleman Darius at the time. Darius, in conjunction with 6 other Persian nobles, launched a collective attack at a rally, which caught Gomeda off guard and chopped him into several pieces alive.
A farce in Persian history ended in this way, and in this regard, we want to say that the liar is always a liar, even if the luck is good, it can only be a liar, and it will eventually be exposed - success and failure often test the quality and will of the person between a thought, and the reason why the liar does not succeed is that he cannot withstand the test between this idea, and it is this truth that the ear dropped by Gomeda tells people.
In addition, Darius, who chopped Gomeda into several pieces, later became a famous monarch of the Persian Empire and was revered by later generations as the "Iron-Blooded Emperor". After his fame, he traveled everywhere and inscribed the famous Behestown Inscription on the stone wall of a small village called Behestown, which contains a passage about Gomeda: "All the people, the Persians and the Medes, turned their backs on Cambyses and fell to him (referring to Gomeda), and he occupied the kingdom, and declared that he would be exempt from taxes and grain for three years, and also took away the houses and fields of the people..." The only thing that corresponds to this and makes Darius successful is Darius's famous words: "I pray for the blessing of the gods, Protect this country and this land from hatred, enemies, lies and droughts, without bad old age, without hatred, without enemies, without lies invading it! ”
This is the realm, and the gap is self-evident here. (Wen | Lusheng)