Arsites

Arsites was satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia under Darius III. He was primus inter pares of the Persian commanders at the Battle of Granicus. Alexander replaced Arsites with his general Calas as the new satrap of the province.

References

Cartledge, P., Alexander the Great (Vintage Books, 2004), p. 300.

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