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Download QR code; Print/export ... Darius III (Old Persian: ... The 2nd-century Roman historian Justin is the only historian to refer Darius as Codomannus, a name he ...
Oxyathres (Ancient Greek: Οξυάθρης; in Old Persian Vaxšuvarda; [citation needed] lived 4th century BC) was a brother of the Persian king Darius III Codomannus. He was the son of a certain Arsames, and grandson of Ostanes.
Phrataphernes (Median: Fratafarnah, Ancient Greek: Φραταφέρνης; lived 4th century BC) was a Persian who held the government of Parthia and Hyrcania, under the king Darius III Codomannus, and joined that monarch with the contingents from the provinces subject to his rule, shortly before the battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC. He afterwards ...
Darius I (the Great, 550 to 487 BC) Darius II (423 to 404 BC) Darius III (Codomannus, 380 to 330 BC) Crown princes. Darius (son of Xerxes I), crown prince of Persia, may have ruled briefly in 465 BC; Darius, son of Artaxerxes II, crown prince and junior king of his father, father of Arbupales
Alexander had recently defeated Darius III Codomannus at the Battle of Gaugamela on the eastern side of the Tigris river, the result of which had been a disaster for Darius and the Persian Empire. Darius had prematurely fled the battle, and his army had dispersed.
Spithridates (Old Persian: *Spiθradātaʰ; Ancient Greek: Σπιθριδάτης Spithridátēs; fl. 365–334 BC) was a Persian satrap of Lydia and Ionia under the high king Darius III Codomannus. He was one of the Persian commanders at the Battle of the Granicus, in 334 BC.
King Darius III: A Research Article on Darius-III Codomannus; Gabae: The name of two places in Persia and Sogdiana. Persian Gates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine: Photos of the battlefield.: ARIOBARZANES, Greek form of an Old Iranian proper name AÚrya-bráza
Oxyathres (Ancient Greek: Οξυάθρης; died 284 BC) was a son of Dionysius, tyrant of Heraclea and of Amastris, the daughter of the brother of Darius III Codomannus, also called Oxyathres. He succeeded, together with his brother Clearchus, to the sovereignty of Heraclea on the death of Dionysius, 306 BC, but the government was administered ...