Abulites

Abulites († 324 BC) was a Persian governor ( satrap ) of the Achaemenids at Susa.

Abulites ' son Oxathres in command on October 1, 331 BC, the levy of the Susiana in the Battle of Gaugamela against Alexander the Great. After the defeat of the Persians and the flight of the Great King Darius III. in the east Abulites submitted in December 331 BC the Conqueror. He was left by him in his province and had to take no Macedonian garrison at Susa, but received a Macedonian strategists at its side. Later Abulites fell to Alexander in disgrace because he while crossing the desert gedrosischen 326/325 BC, whose army had no support send. In Alexander's return to Susa in 324 BC Abulites tried to regain his favor, by offering him 3000 talents. However, Alexander's anger could not be so appease: Abulites was executed along with his son. Plutarch reports that Alexander Oxathres killed by hand with a Sarissa.

In Susa was first Oropios and shortly afterwards the Macedonians Koinos used as the new satrap.