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Biografia. A primeira menção que se tem de Oxiartes indica que ele foi um dos que acompanharam Besso, sátrapa da Bactriana, em sua fuga após o assassinato de Dario III. [3] Depois da morte de Besso, ele deixou sua esposa e filhas em uma fortaleza na Soguediana, que era considerada impenetrável.
Oxyartes (Old Persian: 𐎢𐎺𐎧𐏁𐎫𐎼, Greek: Ὀξυάρτης, in Persian: وخشارد ("Vaxš-ard"), from an unattested form in an Old Iranian language: *Huxšaθra-[1]) was a Sogdian [2] [3] or Bactrian [4] nobleman of Bactria, father of Roxana, the wife of Alexander of Macedon.
Location of the Sogdian Rock. current battle. The Sogdian Rock or Rock of Ariamazes, a fortress located north of Bactria in Sogdiana (near Samarkand), ruled by Arimazes, was captured by the forces of Alexander the Great in the early spring of 327 BC as part of his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire. [a][2][1]
- 327 BC
- Alexander captures Sogdiana
- Macedonian victory [1]
OXYARTES, Persian masculine name, attested only in this Greek form Oxyártēs, which in all probability is transformed by popular etymology (just like Oxyáthrēs [see OXYATHRES]) from OIr. *HuxšaΘra - ( Oxáthrēs ) ‘Of good reign’ (cf. M. Mayrhofer, Iranisches Personennamenbuch I/1, Vienna, 1977, p. 87 no. 335).
Oxyartes was a Bactrian noble and satrap under Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C.E. He was the father of Rhoxane, whom Alexander married, and fought against his enemies in Sogdiana and the Hindu Kush.
In Alexander the Great: Campaign eastward to Central Asia. …the same year he attacked Oxyartes and the remaining barons who held out in the hills of Paraetacene (modern Tajikistan); volunteers seized the crag on which Oxyartes had his stronghold, and among the captives was his daughter, Roxana.
Oxiartes foi um nobre bactriano[1] que viveu no século IV a.C. Ele era o pai de Roxana, esposa de Alexandre, o Grande, e o avô de Alexandre IV.[2]
