Mithrobuzanes

Mithrobuzanes († 334 BC) was a Persian governor ( satrap ) in the 4th century BC.

Mithrobuzanes was under the reign of Darius III. the satrap of Cappadocia near the Taurus ( Südkappadokien ). He commanded 334 BC a military unit in the Battle of the Granicus against Alexander the Great, in which he was killed.

The victorious Alexander appointed in his place the native Sabiktas the satrap of Südkappadokien, but could not hold in this office is.

Swell

• Arrian Anabasis 1.16.3; 2.4.2
• Curtius Rufus 3.4.1
• Diodorus 17.21.3

• Satrap
• Persian antiquity
• Person ( Alexander's )
• Born in the 4th century BC
• Died 334 BC
• Man