Amminapes

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Amminapes (also Manapis ) was a Parthian nobleman who lived under the Persian great king Artaxerxes III. fell out of favor and went as an exile to the court of Philip II of Macedonia . There he probably met the young son of Philip II, Alexander the Great . He later returned to Persia, as he and the Persian satrap Mazakes Alexander the Great when he invaded Egypt at the end of 332 BC. And delivered the Nile country to him. It was probably because of his Pro-Macedonian sentiments that he had persuaded Mazakes to submit to this.

The historian Arrian reports that after the death of Darius III , Alexander the Great . further advance to the east Amminape took place 330 BC. In Parthia and Hyrcania as a satrap. Both satrapies were returned to Phrataphernes shortly afterwards ; however, there is no indication that this was due to the Amminape's misconduct or death. Nothing is known about his further fate.

literature

  • Hilmar Klinkott : The satrap. An Achaemenid office bearer and his room for maneuver (= Oikumene. Studies on ancient world history. 1). Verlag Antike, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-938032-02-2 , p. 515, (list of satraps with further literature; review ; also: Tübingen, Universität, dissertation, 2002).
  • Waldemar Heckel : Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire. Blackwell, Oxford 2006, ISBN 1-4051-1210-7 , p. 22.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Curtius Rufus 6, 4, 25.
  2. ↑ Arrian , Anabasis 3, 22, 1.
  3. ↑ Werner Huss : Egypt in the Hellenistic Period 332–30 BC Chr . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47154-4 , p. 58, note 13 .
  4. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 3, 22, 1; see. Curtius Rufus 6, 4, 25.
  5. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 3, 28, 2; 5, 20, 7; see. Curtius Rufus 8, 3, 17.
personal data
SURNAME Amminapes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Satrap of Parthia and Hyrcania
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 330 BC Chr.