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Otanes
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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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]].


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