Madates
Sign in to saveMadates () or Madetas () was a general of Darius III and was married to a niece of Sisygambis (the mother of Darius). He was leading the Uxii.
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Madates () or Madetas () was a general of Darius III and was married to a niece of Sisygambis (the mother of Darius). He was leading the Uxii.
He was supposedly ethnically Persian, but it is not unlikely he was Uxian. The idea that being a Persian ruling a non-Persian tribe "seems strange but has rarely received much attention from scholars." Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus mention him.
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