page_title: Atropates
hierarchical_section_title: Atropates
caption_attribution_description: Azərbaycanca: Atropatena hükmdarı ile Makedonkralının buluşması
context_page_description: Atropates was a Persian nobleman who served Darius III, then Alexander the Great, and eventually founded an independent kingdom and dynasty that was named after him. Diodorus refers to him as 'Atrapes', while Quintus Curtius erroneously names him 'Arsaces'.
context_section_description: Atropates (Greek Aτρoπάτης, from Old Persian Aturpat "guardian of fire"; c. 370 BC – after 321 BC) was a Persian nobleman who served Darius III, then Alexander the Great, and eventually founded an independent kingdom and dynasty that was named after him. Diodorus (18.4) refers to him as 'Atrapes', while Quintus Curtius (8.3.17) erroneously names him 'Arsaces'.
caption: Painting of Atropates meeting with Alexander the Great. National Museum of History of Azerbaijan
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