Oxathres

Oxathres (Persian: هُخشَتره) is a Persian name, which is also written Oxoathres and Oxyathres. It is frequently confounded or interchanged both by Greek and Latin writers with Oxartes and Oxyartes. Indeed, it is probable that these are all merely different forms of the same name.

Oxathres is the Greek form of the Ghata Avestan name Huxšathra which is a distinctly Zoroastrian name.[1]

Oxathres may refer to:

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Abulites.
  2. Smith, William (1867), "Abulites", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 4
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