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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 [[Achaemenid]] empire.

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As for Samos, the [[Persians]] took the entire population like fish in a drag-net, and presented Syloson with an empty island. Some years later, however, Otanes contracted some sort of disease of the genital organs and that, in conjunction with a dream he had, induced him to repopulate the place.
    
[[Histories]] 3.149;
    tr. Aubrey de Selincourt

This is the last piece of information about Otanes. In 513 BCE, 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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*''This entry incorporates public domain text originally by Jona Lendering ©.''