Orontobates

Orontopates ( on his coins Rhoontopates; † after 331 BC) was a Persian nobleman and governor in the 4th century BC.

As a husband of the younger Ada followed Orontopates around the year 335 BC, his father Pixodaros in office as satrap of Caria after. He was doing the consent of the Great King Darius III. , Which he could assert his claim to the rule in Caria against the older Ada, the aunt of his wife. In the year 334 BC, but Alexander the Great began his Asian campaign. After his victory in the Battle of the Granicus, the older Ada allied with the Macedonian king, whom she adopted even. Orontopates entrenched himself in his capital city of Halicarnassus, which he was able to defend against Alexander for several months with the support of the generals Memnon ( Siege of Halicarnassus ), but ultimately he had to give up the city. The victorious Alexander continued the older Ada as reigning princess in Caria one. Orontopates could keep the two harbor forts for another year, but she had to give BC and flee to the court of the great king of a lost battle against the strategos of Ptolemy and the satraps Asandros in autumn 333. For him, he still fought in 331 BC in the decisive battle of Gaugamela, then nothing is handed down about him.

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• Arrian Anabasis 1, 23, 8; 2, 5, 7; 3, 8, 5
• Diodorus 17, 24, 2
• Curtius Rufus 4, 12, 7