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Otanes
'''Otanes''' ([[Persian language|Old Persian]] Utâna): [[Persia]]n nobleman, one of the seven conspirators who killed the [[Magian]] usurper [[Gaumâta]] and helped [[Darius I]] the Great become king ([[29 September]] [[522 BC]]). Several years later, he added the [[Greek]] island [[Samos]] to the [[Achaemenid]] empire.

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    Histories 3.149;
    tr. [[Aubrey de Selincourt]]

This is the last piece of information about Otanes. In [[513 BC]], a new satrap was appointed in Lydia, [[Artaphernes]]. Probably, Otanes had died.

Otanes had a son [[Patiramphes]], who served as the driver of the [[chariot]] of King [[Xerxes]] during his campaign to [[Greece]]. As we have already seen above, Otanes was probably also the father of Xerxes' first wife, queen [[Amestris]].


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==Reference==
*''This entry incorporates public domain text originally by Jona Lendering ©.''

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