Abulites

Abulites († 324 BC ) was a Persian governor ( satrap ) of the Achaemenids in Susa .

Abulites' son Oxathres commanded on October 1, 331 BC. The contingent of Susiana in the battle of Gaugamela against Alexander the great . After the defeat of the Persians and the flight of the great king Dareios III. Abulites submitted to the east in December 331 BC. BC the conqueror. He was left by him in his province and did not have to take up a Macedonian garrison in Susa, but was given the Macedonian strategist Archelaus . Abulites later fell out of favor with Alexander, because he had his army while crossing the Drosian desert in 326/325 BC. Had given no support. When Alexander returned to Susa in 324 BC Abulites tried to win back his favor by offering him 3,000 talents. Alexander's anger could not be appeased this way: Abulites was executed together with his son. Plutarch reports that Alexander killed Oxathres himself with a Sarissa .

In Susa, first Oropios and shortly afterwards the Macedonian Koinos were installed as new satraps.

literature

Waldemar Heckel : Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's Empire. Blackwell, Oxford et al. 2006, ISBN 3-423-04298-2 , pp. 2-3.
Julius Kaerst : Abulites . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 125.
Siegfried Lauffer : Alexander the Great (= dtv. 4298, dtv science ). 3. Edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-423-04298-2 , p. 101 f. and 167 f.

Remarks

↑ Arrian , Anabasis 3, 16, 6-9; Curtius Rufus 5, 2, 8-9; 5, 2, 16-17; Diodorus 17, 65, 5.
↑ Arrian, Anabasis 7, 4, 1; Plutarch, Alexander 68, 7.

personal data
SURNAME	Abulites
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Satrap of Susa
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	324 BC Chr.

[1] Arrian , Anabasis 3, 16, 6-9; Curtius Rufus 5, 2, 8-9; 5, 2, 16-17; Diodorus 17, 65, 5.

[2] Arrian, Anabasis 7, 4, 1; Plutarch, Alexander 68, 7.