Otanes (son of Sisamnes)

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The Capture of Sisamnes , 1498, Groeninge Museum, Bruges

Otanes (also Onophas ; pers .: Utâna ) was a Persian official and general of the ancient Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC.

His father was Sisamnes , a royal judge. Sisamnes fell out of favor with King Cambyses II because of corruption and was executed and skinned for it. Cambyses had his skin stretched over the judge's seat on which Sisamnes used to sit when he was in office, and now put Otanes into the judge's office of his father. To this end, he advised him to always remember which chair he was sitting in if he was thinking of doing the right thing.

Around the year 512 BC In BC Otanes was appointed commander of the Persian army in western Asia Minor by Great King Darius I , which had previously commanded Megabazos . Successively he conquered Chalcedon , Byzantion , and Antandros . With the help of a fleet from Lesbos he then conquered Lemnos and Imbros , whose people he enslaved.

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SURNAME Otanes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Onophas; Utâna (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Persian judge and general
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC Chr.