Oroetes(86 words)
[German version]
(Ὀροίτης; Oroítēs). Persian governor in Sardeis who (according to Hdt. 3,120ff.) had Polycrates [1] enticed from Samos to Magnesia and crucified. When O. refused to assist Darius [1] I after the death of Cambyses [2], Darius had him disposed of (according to Herodotus, through a command from the royal envoy Bagaeus to the O.'s bodyguard). From the entourage of O., the physician Democedes came to the Persian court.
Wiesehöfer, Josef (Kiel)
Bibliography
P. Briant, Histoire de l'Empire perse: de Cyrus à Alexandre, 1996, s.v. Oroites
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Wiesehöfer, Josef (Kiel),
“Oroetes”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e901070>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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