Mitrobates

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Location of Hellespontine Phrygia, and the provincial capital of Dascylium, in the Achaemenid Empire, c. 500 BCE
Kyzikos, Mysia
. Circa 550-500 BC
Kyzikos, Mysia
. Circa 550-500 BCE

Mitrobates (

Oroetes, who wanted to expand his Anatolian territories.[1][2] After the assassination, Oroetes added the territory of Hellespontine Phrygia to his own.[3]

After

Darius came with a message which displeased him, he set an ambush by the way and killed that messenger on his journey homewards, and made away with the man's body and horse. So when Darius became king he was minded to punish Oroetes for all his wrongdoing, and chiefly for the killing of Mitrobates and his son.

— Herodotus III, 126-127.[4]

These events took place in the troubled times of the interregnum between Cambyses and

Asia Minor, including Mitrobates, was related by Herodotus.[5]

Mitrobates is the first known Persian satrap of Daskyleion (c. 525–520 BCE). Following the reorganisation of satraps by

Darius I, he was succeeded by Megabazus (circa 500 BCE) and then his son Oebares II (c. 493 BCE) and Artabazus (479 BCE), who established the Persian Pharnacid dynasty, which would rule Hellespontine Phrygia until the conquests of Alexander the Great (338 BCE).[6]

References

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  4. ^ Herodotus III, 126-127.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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