Mithrenes

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/facts/Public_domain/YWKMDKw4">public domain</a>: <a href="/facts/William_Smith_(lexicographer)/FMSstmWB">Smith, William</a>, ed. (1870). "Mithrenes or Mithrines". <a href="/facts/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology/GGY10Pdg">Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology</a>. Vol. 2. p. 1093.

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<li id="fn:1">Briant, Pierre (2012). Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction. Princeton University Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-1400834860. Yet the Persian Mithrenes had not been given a high-level post in the imperial administration; such posts were reserved for Greeks and Macedonians. <a href="978-1400834860" target="_blank">978-1400834860</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Anson, Edward M. (2014). Alexander's Heirs: The Age of the Successors. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1118862407. (...) Mithrenes, a Persian nobleman, was appointed satrap of Armenia by Alexander. <a href="978-1118862407" target="_blank">978-1118862407</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Herrmann, J.; Zurcher, E., eds. (1996). History of Humanity: From the seventh century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. UNESCO. p. 170. ISBN 978-9231028120. As early as the year 334, the king had given clear evidence of his desire to win over the Persian nobles: he allowed Mithrenes, who had just surrendered (...) <a href="978-9231028120" target="_blank">978-9231028120</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">Curtis, John E.; Tallis, Nigel, eds. (2005). Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia. University of California Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0520247314. Darius still had many noble Persians, satraps and strategists all ready to serve him. The first was that of Mithrenes, governor of Sardis (...) <a href="978-0520247314" target="_blank">978-0520247314</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">Waldemar Heckel (2005). The Marshals of Alexander's Empire. Routledge. ISBN 978-1134942657. page 92; "(...) by sending to them Mithrenes, who spoke Persian." <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">Chaumont, M. L. (1986). "ARMENIA AND IRAN ii. The pre-Islamic period". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. II, Fasc. 4. pp. 418–438. Armenia was annexed to Alexander's empire but not really subdued. The governorship was given to Mithrenes (Mithrana), a Persian who had been the satrap of Sardis. <a href="https://iranicaonline.org/articles/armenia-ii" target="_blank">https://iranicaonline.org/articles/armenia-ii</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Cyril Toumanoff (Georgetown University Press, 1963; Studies in Christian Caucasian History, part III. The Orontids of Armenia. ). p. 278-290" <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Cyril Toumanoff (Georgetown University Press, 1963; Studies in Christian Caucasian History, part III. The Orontids of Armenia. ). p. 278; "The eponym's praeonemen Orontes is as Iranian as the dynasty itself, derived from the Avestan auraund/aurvant ('mighty,' 'hero') and related to the Pehlevi arvand." <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Toumanoff" target="_blank">/wiki/Cyril_Toumanoff</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">Toumanoff, Cyril (1959). "INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN CAUCASIAN HISTORY (The Formative Centuries (IVth-VIIIth))". 15: 27. Already in the Achaemenian phase, the office of Satrap of Armenia became hereditary in the Iranian families of the Hydarnids and, then, the Orontids...[...]. The fact that the Orontids were descended from the Achaemenid Great Kings, who were no more, and that they held sway over most of the territory of the old Vannic Monarchy, when conjoined with their power and their de facto, autonomy, led them to assume the status of kings {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) <a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" target="_blank">/wiki/Template:Cite_journal</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">Waldemar Heckel (2006). "Mithrenes (Mithrines, Mithrinnes)". Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander's empire. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9. <a href="978-1-4051-1210-9" target="_blank">978-1-4051-1210-9</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">Curtius, Histories of Alexander the Great, iii. 12 <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Curtius_Rufus" target="_blank">/wiki/Quintus_Curtius_Rufus</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">Arrian, The Anabasis of Alexander, iii. 16 <a href="/wiki/Arrian" target="_blank">/wiki/Arrian</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">Curtius, Histories of Alexander the Great, v. 1.44 <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Curtius/5*.html" target="_blank">https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Curtius/5*.html</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:15">Curtius, Histories of Alexander the Great, vi. 3 <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Curtius/6*.html" target="_blank">https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Curtius/6*.html</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:16">Justin, Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi, xxxviii. 7[usurped] <a href="/wiki/Justin_(historian)" target="_blank">/wiki/Justin_(historian)</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:17">Photius, Bibliotheca, cod. 82 <a href="/wiki/Photius_I_of_Constantinople" target="_blank">/wiki/Photius_I_of_Constantinople</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:18">Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, xviii. 3.3 <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/18A*.html" target="_blank">https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/18A*.html</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:19">Justin, Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi, xiii. 4.23 <a href="http://www.attalus.org/translate/justin1.html" target="_blank">http://www.attalus.org/translate/justin1.html</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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