noble_family mithrenes
Orontes II ( Armenian :   , Yervand II ) was the son of Orontes I by his wife Rhodoghune , a daughter of the Persian king Artaxerxes II . After Codomannus ascended the throne of Persia as Darius III of Persia in 336 BC , Orontes was given the Satrapy of Armenia to rule . The Satrapy of Armenia ( Old Persian : " Armina " or " Arminiya "), a region controlled by the ___MASK31___ ( 570 - 201 BC ) was one of the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC , which later became an independent kingdom . Its capitals were Tushpa and later Erebuni . Mithrenes ( Armenian :  , Greek : M or M ) was an Armenian commander of the Persian force that garrisoned the citadel of Sardis . After the battle of the Granicus Mithrines surrendered voluntarily to Alexander the Great , and was treated by him with great distinction . He fought for Alexander at Gaugamela , and ironically he was fighting against an army that included his father Orontes II . After the battle , Alexander appointed him Satrap of Armenia , as his father had been . It ' s not clear , however , whether Mithrenes actually managed to take control of his satrapy . According to Curtius , in his speech given at Hecatompylos in 330 BC Alexander the Great listed Armenia among lands conquered by Macedonians , implying that Mithrenes succeeded in conquering it ; on the other hand , Justin reproduced Pompeius Trogus ' rendition of a speech attributed to Mithridates VI of Pontus , which mentioned that Alexander did not conquer Armenia . In summary , Mithrenes ruled on behalf of the new Macedonian regime . However , after the death of Alexander III , Neoptolemus was made Satrap of Armenia from 323 to 321 BC . After the death of Neoptolemus , and the struggles going on with the Diadochi it seems Mithrenes not only returned to his ancestral seat but declared himself king . Alexander III of Macedon ( 20 / 21 July 356 BC  10 / 11 June 323 BC ), commonly known as Alexander the Great (" Aléxandros ho Mégas " ), was a king (" basileus ") of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the ___MASK55___ . Born in Pella in 356 BC , Alexander succeeded his father , Philip II , to the throne at the age of twenty . He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa , and by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world , stretching from Greece to northwestern India . He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history ' s most successful military commanders .