Oroetus: Persian satrap of Lydia, appointed by king Cyrus the Great, responsible for the death of Polycrates of Samos, killed by order of king Darius I the Great.
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Orontes II (Greek: ᾽Ορόντης, ᾽Ορόντας, or ᾽Αροάνδης): satrap of Armenia (c.330 - c.315 BCE).
Achaemenid rhyton from the palace at Erebuni
Although Orontes II is not…
Orontes III or Ardoates: Orontid king of Armenia (c.280 BCE).The origins of Armenian independence are poorly understood, but it seems that when Alexander the Great sent an army, commanded by Mithrenes, to gain control of Armenia (331 BCE),note[Arrian, Anabasis 3.16.5.] the satrap appointed…
Orontes IV: Orontid king of Armenia (c.220-c.200 BCE).In the section of the Geography that is devoted to Armenia, the Graeco-Roman geographer Strabo of Amasia offers a very brief history of this country. It had once been part of the Persian Empire, had…
Orophernes II (c.160 BCE): son of Ariararathes IV, king of Cappadocia.Relatives
Son of Ariarathes IV and Antiochis (daughter of Antiochus III the Great and Laodice III)
Main deeds
In 163, Ariarathes V Philopator succeeded his father.
The Seleucid ruler Demetrius I Soter proposed to…
Ostracism, "the judgment of the potsherds": Athenian juridical practice in which a potentially dangerous person would be exiled from the city without loss of property or civil rights.
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Otanes (Old Persian Utâna): Persian nobleman, one of the seven conspirators who killed the Magian usurper Gaumâta and helped Darius I the Great become king (29 September 522 BCE). Several years later, he added the Greek island Samos to the…