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4 identifiers linking Atropates across the web's reference databases
14 statements · 14% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
4 identifiers linking Atropates across the web's reference databases
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Atropates was a Persian nobleman who served Darius III, then Alexander the Great, and eventually founded an independent kingdom and dynasty that was named after him. Diodorus (18.4) refers to him as Atrápēs (Ἀτράπης), while Quintus Curtius (8.3.17) erroneously names him 'Arsaces'.