confirming Oxyartes in his position as he would have found it difficult to dispossess Oxyartes even if he had wanted to. It seems probable that Oxyartes must...
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Alexander as the daughter of Oxyartes. Curtius apparently misrepresented Roxana as a daughter of Chorienes. Arrian states that Oxyartes surrendered to Alexander...
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difficulty by the satrap of Bactria, Artabazus of Phrygia. Alexander attacks Oxyartes and the remaining Bactrian barons who are holding out in the hills of Paraetacene...
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The Phasmida Species File lists: Oxyartes cresphontes (Westwood, 1859) Oxyartes densigranulatus Ho, 2020 Oxyartes despectus (Westwood, 1848) - type species...
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father-in-law Oxyartes, a native Bactrian, as ruler of this region. Justin has "Extarches" which is presumably a corrupted version of Oxyartes. Oxyartes was another...
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Sibyrtius over Arachosia. The country of the Parapamisians was bestowed upon Oxyartes, the father of Roxana; and the skirts of India adjacent to Mount Parapamisus...
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that the legendary Assyrian king Ninus had defeated a Bactrian king named Oxyartes in c. 2140 BC, or some 1000 years before the Trojan War. Since the decipherment...
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Roxana, and refers to the Bactrian noblewoman who was the daughter of Oxyartes of Bactria (not Sogdiana) and the official wife of Alexander the Great...
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early spring of 327 BC as part of his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire. Oxyartes of Bactria had sent his wife and daughters, one of whom was Roxane, to...
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Alexander married three times: Roxana, daughter of the Sogdian nobleman Oxyartes of Bactria, out of love; and the Persian princesses Stateira and Parysatis...
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Parashar as Oxyartes: Father of Roxane, Commander-in-Chief of Bactra. After Alexander kills Bessus (for betraying Darius), he appoints Oxyartes as King of...
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neighboring Asian countries apart from India and Bactriana, then made war on Oxyartes, king of Bactriana, with an army of nearly two million, taking all but...
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Pausanias of Orestis Laird Macintosh as Greek officer Féodor Atkine as Oxyartes, Roxana's father Bin Bunluerit as King Porus of India Jaran Ngramdee as...
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Porus governed over their kingdoms in India; Alexander's father-in-law Oxyartes governed Gandara; Sibyrtius governed Arachosia and Gedrosia; Stasanor governed...
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this fortress Alexander found Roxana, the daughter of the Bactrian chief, Oxyartes, whom he made his wife. The first century historian Quintus Curtius Rufus...
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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...
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a fortress located north of Bactria in Sogdiana, occurred in 327 BC. Oxyartes of Bactria had sent his wife and daughters, one of whom was Roxana, to...
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the long Sogdian campaign of 329–327 BC against Bessus, Spitamenes, and Oxyartes, and the early stages of the campaigns in the Punjab (327–326 BC), with...
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difficulty by the satrap of Bactria, Artabazus of Phrygia. Alexander attacks Oxyartes and the remaining Bactrian barons who are holding out in the hills of Paraetacene...
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Porus are to rule over their kingdoms in India; Alexander's father-in-law Oxyartes rules Gandhara; Sibyrtius governs Arachosia and Gedrosia; Stasanor rules...
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a city called Alexandria-on-the-Indus, assigning it to the satrapy of Oxyartes (father of Roxana) and populating it with Thracian troops. Some of the...
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the main center; Sogdia, administered by officers such as Spitamenes and Oxyartes; the nomadic Iranian tribes of Central Asia; Aria, governed by the satrap...
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of the Indus with the Acesines (Chenab river) to the sea was given to Oxyartes and Peithon, son of Agenor (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander VI.15.4) After...
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dohertius Rothschild, 1898 Obi P. u. ampelius Rothschild, 1908 Buru P. u. oxyartes Fruhstorfer, 1909 Aru P. u. georgius Rothschild, 1908 New Georgia Group...
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Uzbekistan)―Sogdia Mar 327 Sogdian Rock o Rock of Sisimithres (where Oxyartes and Roxana were) (Gissarskiy (or Hissar) Range, Pamiro-Alai region, Tajikistan)―Sogdia...
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and Porus ruled over their kingdoms in India; Alexander's father-in-law Oxyartes ruled Gandara; Sibyrtius ruled Arachosia and Gedrosia; Stasanor ruled Aria...
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of the novel marries the Bactrian Roxane (Ρωξάνη in Greek), daughter of Oxyartes. Having thus safeguarded his rights in the kingdoms of Orient, he sets...
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writes, "The fairest prize that fell to him was Roxana, the daughter of Oxyartes, in the first bloom of youth, and in the judgment of Alexander's companions...
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Nam). Bresseel and Constant noted that this genus is closely related to Oxyartes, but is "easily distinguishable by the presence of fully developed alae...
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Rhodian and Roxane was depicted as the daughter of Darius rather than Oxyartes. Historian Robin Lane Fox, who worked on Oliver Stone's Alexander, was...
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