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satrap of See also:Bactria and See also:Sogdiana under See also:Darius III. In the See also:battle of Gaugamela (1st of See also:October 331) he commanded the troops of his satrapy. When See also:Alexander pursued the See also:Persian See also:king on his See also:flight to the See also:East (summer 330), Bessus with some of the other conspirators deposed Darius and shortly afterwards killed him. He then tried to organize a See also:national resistance against the Macedonian conqueror in the eastern provinces, proclaimed himself king and adopted the name See also:Artaxerxes. But he was taken prisoner by treachery in the summer of 329. Alexander sent him to See also:Ecbatana, where he was condemned to See also:death. Before his See also:execution his See also:nose and ears were cut off, according to the Persian See also:custom; we learn from the See also:Behistun inscription that Darius I. punished the usurpers in the same way.

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