Mithrenes (Greek: Mιθρένης or Mιθρίνης) was a Persian commander of the force that garrisoned the citadel of Sardis.
[8][9] Waldemar Heckel, on the other hand, considers Mithrenes to be a Persian noble of unknown family background.
[11] He fought for Alexander at Gaugamela, and ironically he was fighting against an army that included his father[citation needed] Orontes II.
[20] Neoptolemus apparently campaigned in Armenia after the death of Alexander,[21] but his official status in this area is unclear; he might have been a strategos rather than a satrap.
[22] Neoptolemus managed only to create havoc in Armenia,[21] which suggests that he wasn't cooperating with any existing satrap.
[citation needed] One of the inscriptions from the Mount Nemrut detailing the ancestry of Antiochus I Theos of Commagene lists an ancestor whose name was incompletely preserved and who was a son of Aroandas, the second ancestor of Antiochus mentioned in the inscriptions from Mount Nemrut who bore that name (identified with the Orontes who was a commander in the Battle of Gaugamela by Karl Julius Beloch[29] and Herman Brijder;[30] Friedrich Karl Dörner found this identification questionable[31]).