Oxathres
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Oxathres is a Persian name, which is also written Oxoathres and Oxyathres. It is frequently confounded or interchanged both by Greek and Latin writers with Oxartes and Oxyartes
. Indeed, it is probable that these are all merely different forms of the same name.
Oxathres is the greek form of the Ghata
Avestan name Huxšathra which is a distinctly Zoroastrian name.
Oxathres may refer to:
Oxyartes
Oxyartes was a Bactrian, father of Roxana, the wife of Alexander of Macedon. He is first mentioned as one of the chiefs who accompanied Bessus on his retreat across the Oxus river into Sogdiana...
. Indeed, it is probable that these are all merely different forms of the same name.
Oxathres is the greek form of the Ghata
Gathas
The Gathas are 17 hymns believed to have been composed by Zarathusthra himself. They are the most sacred texts of the Zoroastrian faith.-Structure and organization:...
Avestan name Huxšathra which is a distinctly Zoroastrian name.
Oxathres may refer to:
- Oxyathres of PersiaOxyathres of PersiaOxyathres was a brother of the Persian king Darius III Codomannus...
, a brother of King Darius III Codomannus - Oxyathres of HeracleaOxyathres of HeracleaOxyathres 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...
, a son of Dionysius, tyrant of Heraclea - Oxathres son of AbulitesAbulitesAbulites was the Achaemenid satrap of Susiana. Following the defeat of Darius III at Issus, he surrendered Susa to Alexander the Great when the latter approached the city...
satrap of Susiana under Darius III. Abulites and Oxathres were executed by Alexander of Macedon.