Spitaménès

Spitaménès is noble a Perse (death in 328 av. J. - C.) which fought against Alexandre Large the.

With the beginning of the year 329 av J. - C. it delivers the satrap Bessos, the assassin of Darius III, with the complicity of Oxyartès, the father of Roxane, future wife of Alexandre. But this gesture is not intended to be combined the good graces of Alexandre. On the contrary, Spitaménès, which proclaims king under the name of Artaxerxès, takes the head of the resistance of the people of Sogdiane and Bactriane, the Saces and the Massagètes in particular. It besieges Marankanda, capital of Sodgiane, while Alexandre fights more in north against the Scythes (fine 329, beginning 328). Extremely of a troop of assembled archers, it inflicts a serious defeat with the troops approximately (: 3000 men of which: 1500 riders) sent against him in the valley of the Polytimétos (current Zeravchan (or Seravchan ) in Ouzbékistan). He massacres then the garrison of Zariapsa .

During winter 329-328, it benefits from the stay of Alexandre with Marankanda to attack Bactriane from where it is driven out with great difficulty by the satrap Artabaze. In December 328, Coénus, the general sent by Alexandre, demolishes it. It is killed when Massagètes, anxious by the reaction of Alexandre, who has just signed a treaty with the Scythians after having demolished them and which pacifies with brutality Sogdiane, betray it and carry his head to Alexandre.

He is the father of Apama, married to Séleucos at the time of the weddings of Suse in 324.

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