Menedemus (general)
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Menedemus was one of the generals of Alexander the Great, who was sent in 329 BC against Spitamenes
, satrap
of Sogdiana
, but was surprised and slain, together with 2000 foot-soldiers and 300 horse.
Spitamenes
Spitamenes Sogdian warlord, leader of the uprising in Sogdiana and Bactria against Alexander of Macedon 329 BC....
, satrap
Satrap
Satrap was the name given to the governors of the provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as the Sassanid Empire and the Hellenistic empires....
of Sogdiana
Sogdiana
Sogdiana or Sogdia was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province of the Achaemenid Empire, eighteenth in the list on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great . Sogdiana is "listed" as the second of the "good lands and countries" that Ahura Mazda created...
, but was surprised and slain, together with 2000 foot-soldiers and 300 horse.